Monday Confessional
Work work work, seems I am very busy lately. Got to make money to buy food, got to pay bills, got to feed car… I know I am being silly but maybe having my own little place in the woods and just farming and gathering wouldn’t be so bad. Too bad I don’t know enough about either to live…but maybe I could learn. Been doing yard work to make extra money. The cash is not very good but it pays the bills. If some good web design jobs come through soon I should be OK, I have a couple good prospects. Want a website built, I do good work. Been doing a lot of good things at work lately, we might be installing some really large turbines soon, going to make a lot of good renewable energy. WOOT! Also I have been having a really good time with my friends and life seems to be going pretty well. Thats about it for me, happy Monday, and a merry El Tuesday.
Footprint
Leave as little a footprint as possible on our environment so that others may follow your path.
Earth Day 2006: Canal Clean Up
I celebrated earth day today cleaning up the cape cod canal with the lovely folks at AmeriCorps Cape Cod, and some very committed volunteers from the area. We cleaned up over 1000 pounds of trash and had a great time doing it. Lean more about the history of earth day here. As it happens every earth day people talk about their Eco Foot Print. That is the amount of land you use up in comparison to the amount of land that would be available to you if everyone got an equal share.
my foot print is as follows:
CATEGORY ACRES
FOOD 2.2
MOBILITY 0.2
SHELTER 4.9
GOODS/SERVICES 4.7
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 12
IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 24 ACRES PER PERSON.
WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 4.5 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE ACRES PER PERSON.
IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 2.7 PLANETS.
Not bad, but not good either, I need to drive less, conserve more energy, eat more local foods, maybe even grow more food on my own. Its horrible that I use half what a normal American uses and I still use 3 times what I should be. Its sad, but I am working on it.
Want to check your footprint? Try myfootprint.org
Earth Day
I remember the first Earth Day way back in April 22, 1970 and there was a rally held in a park next to the college I was attending at the time. The main speaker, a well dressed bearded scholar, was lecturing us poor uninformed folk about how bad pollution and our way of living was and how it was destroying our world. After the rally I had some questions to ask this knowledgeable leader of the environmental movement. So I followed him out to his car and tried to ask my questions, but he said he was in a hurry and couldn’t spend the time with me. He then drove off in a cloud of black smoke billowing from the tailpipe of his Mercedes diesel.
I learned a good number of lessons on that day. Practice what you preach. Even back in 1970, as it is today, it was hard to find anyone who does. And another lesson learned was Experts don’t know crap! You just got to keep an open mind and evaluate what knowledge you accumulate, because you’re responsible for what you do and how you live. So on this Earth Day go and checkout what these Experts are driving! Oh and by the way, my homes electric is powered by solar panels.
What can you do right now? Get rid of those dang incandescent bulbs and use Compact fluorescent lights that use 75% less energy. Now go and yank them out of their sockets and toss them. Even if you have to be in the dark tonight! Thanks for reading! //bob
New Blogger
Some of you might have noticed that we have a new author here at The Sietch. Please welcome Bob to our blog author list. His inagural post is below. Lets hope we hear a lot from him! Welcome Bob!
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