We watched An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore's crusade about improving awareness of global warming. It is truly sobering because of the fact that we are rapidly approaching the point of no-return. We know what must be done to leave a lighter footprint on the planet (though here are more pointers, from his site), now we need to Just Do It.
So I have only one New Year's resolution for 2007,
Save The Planet
That should keep me busy for a while...
Best wishes for a Happy New Year 2007.
English Cucumbers
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Happy New Year!
We watched this movie just about a week before Christmas and were also quite affected. We'd been delaying watching it for months, thinking that it would be really depressing. But we found it totally inspiring, and are constantly thinking of things to DO. As soon as the movie was over, we went down to the basement and unplugged the ancient chest freezer (something we'd been meaning to do but never got around to - anything worth keeping fit in our kitchen freezer). Since we'd already replaced most of our lightbulbs with high-efficiency ones, I think we cut our household emissions in half right there!
We also replaced our old car with a new one over the holidays. Although we struggled with and ultimately rejected the idea of getting a hybrid (with the promise of revisiting the idea in 3 years), we justified this choice with decision to continue to only have one car, and the fact that we don't commute far to work. Also, it's incentive to focus on making this year the one in which one of us begins working from home!
I think spreading the word, and convincing others that this really is a big thing is one of the most important thing we can all do.
Happy New Year!
I recommend you pick up WeatherMakers by Tim Flannery. I've just started reading it - it will make you think twice about the environment we have created.
I picked up "Heat" by George Monbiot during the holiday after listening to an interview with him on CBC radio. I'm planning to read it only when I take buses to work and see how long it takes... Hopefully, that will encourage me to take public transit more often :-)
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