Well, we missed another “holiday,” this time being America Recycles Day.  It was Saturday.  Now, treehugger thinks this is a (explitive deleted) holiday, and we should make November 15 Zero Waste Day.  Part of the reasoning is that America Recycles Day is brought to you by the fine people that make things that are put in recyclable despensers: Coke, Bud, Coors, the bottled water industry, and so forth.  It seems also that they’re not too happy with the fact that recycling is a transfer of responsibility from corporations to taxpayers. But what they fail to realize are these very impressive and completely false facts about recycling:

–Every time you say “I don’t believe in recycling,” a fairy dies.

–Did you know that the energy saved from recycling just one can is enough to power the sun for fifty years?

–Recycling comes from the Latin, “recyclicaie,” which means “to be way sexy.”

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I think that most of us here can agree that the only thing better than a good beer is a good beer that lets us be environmentally conscious.   In that light, we can all be thrilled that Sapporo, the Japanese beer company, has announced that it will begin labeling one of its beers with carbon emissions information.   As reported in the Daily Yomiuri Online (via environmental leader):

The practice of calculating the amount of CO2 emitted through each stage of the production and disposal process–from production of ingredients to recycling of a package–is known as carbon footprinting. It is done to help objectively illustrate how much CO2 is emitted to encourage firms to try to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Budweiser parent corporation Anheuser-Busch has received an acquisition offer Belgian Brewer InBev, makers of Stella Artois and Beck’s. The proposed sale has American politicians in an uproar over the prospect of losing the King of Beers and his court of cronies including Michelob, Busch, Rolling Rock and King Cobra to European control.

The unsolicited share offer from InBev promises $65.00 per share of Anheuser-Busch, well above the stock’s closing price of $58.35 at the end of trading yesterday. Wall Street reacted favorably to the bid, driving the share price up to $62.80 in after hours trading last night. But politicians were not so pleased, particularly in Anheuser-Busch’s home state of Missouri. The Show-Me State’s Governor Matt Blunt had this to say, “I am strongly opposed to the sale of Anheuser-Busch, and today’s offer to purchase the company is deeply troubling to me.” Blunt has directed the Missouri Department of Economic Development to see if there is a way to stop the deal from going through.

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