By chaingmai.hhh on Skatehive
The Hash House Harriers aren't just a club whose motto is "drinkers with a running problem," we are also a group of nature lovers that would prefer to keep the green as green as we can. All of the Hash events I have attended around the world have a focus on environmentalism but not in a preachy way. We aren't trying to get everyone to buy electric cars or tell you to cut down on your water usage, we aren't the government. What we do tend to do all around the world though is to help to clean it up, no matter where we are. In the USA many Hash House Harrier chapters will adopt a highway, which is kind of a crappy thing for the government to offer in order to get free labor out of people, but we enjoy doing it because it puts the name out there. I've never encountered a HHH group that bothered with self-promotion but there is a bit of pride there. The other groups clean up wherever they are and collect trash on their runs no matter where they are. Frequently people who participate in vari