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Finally in this popular month for getting married, a look at white weddings that are going green. Eco- friendly concerns have now become a big part of the big day for many couples, here is NBC's chief environmental affairs correspondent Ann Thompson. For Christie P and Joshua H, being green is a way of life. They buy organic, he bikes to work. She tends a garden of native plants that they water from a rain barrel.

So it is no surprise that on their wedding day, their love for each other would reflect their love for the earth. When we first preplanning our wedding, we didn’t even know of the term green wedding. We just wanted to have our friends together and do it in a sustainable way.

Starting with their invitations on recycle paper. Rings of recycle gold. Pesticide-free flowers. Adapt the reception an organic menu. Fair trade wine, biodegradable utensils even solar powered music. If you like to play in it, you'd like to be in it, and then there is a responsibility for helping maintain it. A walk down the aisle / leaves a significant carbon footprint. The average wedding creates 14 and a half tons of carbon dioxide, that’s 2 tons more than the average person does over an entire year. The 70 billion dollar a year wedding industry offers many shades of green. There are websites to help you find everything form eco-friendly gowns and diamonds to honeymoons and your first house. 6 years ago when J P started his company organic bouquet.com, weddings were just a tiny fraction of his business. Now we get calls everyday from brides and event planners and florists who want organic followers for their weddings. The industry insists this is not a fad, going green is becoming as much of a tradition as have something borrowed and something blue .

But beauty has its price. Wedding planner say going green can add 10-20% to the average wedding which already costs nearly 28 thousand dollars. So how does a couple balance their budget while being kind to the earth? Christie P says it’s about trade-offs. Organic food is a little bit more expensive, but the dress that I bought it’s a sundress that I can wear over and over and over again. And that was less expensive. Christie and Joshua’s wedding on this their most special day, a reflection of the values they live everyday. Ann Thompson, NBC NEWS, Minneapolis

想起了最近看的《货币战争》里面曾经提过，污染环境和所谓环保概念都是国际银行家们创造出来获取利润而已

如果一旦世界出现了“永久和平”，美国社会的出路何在呢？这正是这个秘密研究小组要追寻的答案。

换句话说，他们需要为美国找到一个能够替代“战争”的新方案。经过谨
慎的研究，专家们提出，替代战争的新方案必须同时具备３个条件：（１）在经
济上，必须是“浪费”的，最少需要消耗每年GDP 的１０％；（２）必须是一种
和战争危险类似的、大规模的、可信的重大威胁；（３）必须提供人民强迫性服
务于G0vern.ment的合乎逻辑的理由。

要同时满足这三大条件，也不是一件轻松的工作。专家们先是想到“向贫困宣战
“。贫困问题虽然足够庞大，但是不具备足够的恐惧感，所以很快被放弃了。另
一个选择是外星人入侵，虽然足够恐怖，但在６０年代还缺乏可信度，于是又被
放弃了。最后大家想到了“环境污染”，它在相当程度上是一个事实，具备可信
度，在对环境污染的宣传上下下功夫，足以达到核战争之后世界末日的恐怖程度；
不断地污染环境的确是在经济上非常“浪费”的；人民忍受高税收和降低生活质
量，接受G0vern.ment干预私人生活，为的是“拯救地球母亲”，非常符合逻辑。

--摘自《货币战争》