Last night I watch Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth.
I have always been a 'greenie' - I can remember when I was about 12 my father, who had spent his life on the sea as a fisherman, was offered a post on a whaler. It would mean we would have to live on Norfolk Island (I think that was the island), anyway I can remember carrying on a treat, telling my parents I would never speak with them again. My parents didn't go, my father refused the job but it had nothing to do with my tantrums more an economic decision. Anyway, I was a greenie way back then and still am.
I have had solar hot water for about 25 years, put in a water tank 2 years ago, planted trees on my tiny suburban block, switch to power saving light bulbs and water devices, turn off my computer, printer, etc when I am not using them - I don't keep anything on standby if I can help it - I switch off, and, hopefully, by the end of the year I will have solar electricity on my roof to decrease the amount of electricity I use from suppliers.
Watching the movie last night made me wonder how many of us really try and do our part or do we leave it up to governments and big business to sort out. A lot of people and governments have an 'ostrich' attitude to climate change but what will that mean to our grandchildren?
How about everyone who reads this blog entry does 5 things to help reduce their impact on climate change?
Then how about they get five friends to do the same - then get each of those five friends to get five friends and so on. Let's see how many people we can get to make just five changes.
So go on tag 5 people to join us now!
Put the sign on your blog site to remind people to make changes - I have made a simple one to use, just right click and save it to post.
Please link to the blogsite Pledge Your Support to Save the Planet
so we can keep a tally of how many people join us.
Add your comments to the new site and send your friends to it so they can read the message too - If you leave a comment on the other site and post the banner on your blog I will add your link to our growing list.
Let's see if we can start our own blog virtual march of supporters!
I have always been a 'greenie' - I can remember when I was about 12 my father, who had spent his life on the sea as a fisherman, was offered a post on a whaler. It would mean we would have to live on Norfolk Island (I think that was the island), anyway I can remember carrying on a treat, telling my parents I would never speak with them again. My parents didn't go, my father refused the job but it had nothing to do with my tantrums more an economic decision. Anyway, I was a greenie way back then and still am.
I have had solar hot water for about 25 years, put in a water tank 2 years ago, planted trees on my tiny suburban block, switch to power saving light bulbs and water devices, turn off my computer, printer, etc when I am not using them - I don't keep anything on standby if I can help it - I switch off, and, hopefully, by the end of the year I will have solar electricity on my roof to decrease the amount of electricity I use from suppliers.
Watching the movie last night made me wonder how many of us really try and do our part or do we leave it up to governments and big business to sort out. A lot of people and governments have an 'ostrich' attitude to climate change but what will that mean to our grandchildren?
How about everyone who reads this blog entry does 5 things to help reduce their impact on climate change?
Then how about they get five friends to do the same - then get each of those five friends to get five friends and so on. Let's see how many people we can get to make just five changes.
So go on tag 5 people to join us now!
Put the sign on your blog site to remind people to make changes - I have made a simple one to use, just right click and save it to post.Please link to the blogsite Pledge Your Support to Save the Planet
so we can keep a tally of how many people join us.
Add your comments to the new site and send your friends to it so they can read the message too - If you leave a comment on the other site and post the banner on your blog I will add your link to our growing list.
Let's see if we can start our own blog virtual march of supporters!
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