Comic by Natalie Dee.
CLIMATE CHANGE.
In honour of Blog Action Day's request, today over 8,000 bloggers will talk about the fact that our planet is going to hell in a handmade straw basket that we haggled over at some flea market in nassau, bahamas from some poor woman who creates and sells them to support her family on mere dollars a day, it was priced at 3 dollars, but you only wanted to pay 2, nice work.
Ever heard of it?
In honour of Blog Action Day's request, today over 8,000 bloggers will talk about the fact that our planet is going to hell in a handmade straw basket that we haggled over at some flea market in nassau, bahamas from some poor woman who creates and sells them to support her family on mere dollars a day, it was priced at 3 dollars, but you only wanted to pay 2, nice work.
I digress, to prove my commitment to our planet, i'm going to make three bold (well, slightly bold) promises to you - dear readers - that will change my life forever.
Are you ready?
1. I WILL STOP PEEING WITH THE WATER RUNNING.
This is a bigger deal than you think it is. I am a notorious water-waster... i don't know why i have to do it... but i can't urinate unless there is water running. This is stopping right now. I know it is a ridiculous habit/compulsion... i am not an idiot. So there you go. stopped. promised. no more water wasting.
2. I WILL ONLY BUY A COFFEE IF I HAVE A CERAMIC/TRAVEL MUG.
Man, it drives me crazy when i think about how much waste is created from picking up a coffee.
In the past i have tried to make this deal, but i didn't have 100 people waiting for me to fuck up... so there we go. If you see me with a paper coffee cup - you have permission to demand $50 cash from me. Well, after i finish the tall latte sitting beside my laptop at this very moment.
3. I WILL MOVE ALL MY BILLS ONLINE.
Man, i can't believe the amount of paper and transportation is wasted with traditional mail. I promise to receive and pay all my bills to electronic format by 31 days from now. Check out this stat from Time Magazine: If every U.S home viewed and paid it's bills online, the switch would cut solid waste by 1.6 billions tons a year and curb greenhouse-gas emissions by 2.1 million tons a year. - Javelin Strategy & Research.
Holy. that's a lot.
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So there you go, 3 promises from me that should slightly reduce my enormous unsightly footprint on this sadly abused planet of ours.
Now it's your turn, feel free to confess an ecological sin via a comment - and promise to make a change. I will check in on you periodically to make sure you did not just greenwash your image, and you are welcome to do the same to me.
Happy earth-saving friends,
H.
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Patrick claims... he's going to install a toilet dam that saves water every time you flush. He's also going to get a low-flow shower-head that saves 0.4 tonnes of green house gases a year. He's also ONLY going to wash his gym clothes in hot water from now on and switch to cold on everything else (you'll want to ask him about this because I don't believe he's going to do it).
ReplyDeleteI'm going to stop doing small loads of laundry. I'm terrible for it, I'll turn on the machine just to wash 3 shirts or a set of gym clothes. I can commit to stopping that practice. I will no longer take naps while showering... jk...
And yes, count me in for the coffee cup initiative. It means I get to go shopping for a wicked new stainless steel or ceramic travel mug! I'm going to force Tricky into this one as well - he's going to be really grumpy the first time I tell him he can't get a coffee because he's forgotten his mug though :)
Also, since I'm moving, I'll switch my bills to online and I'll promise to use my green box which has sadly sat empty for months.
Sound good?
Yes Faye! nice work!
ReplyDeleteWho's next???
H.
meeeeeeeeee !
ReplyDeleteI already wrote about climate change today without even knowing about this thinger, crazy.
Gross disclosure: but I let it mellow overnight and save the water for my lady friend if she's peeing right after me. We're saving our flushes by almost 50%. That's a lot of litres, especially from non low flow toilets. ick and eww all you want, flushing is a major water waster.
I'm continuing to vermicompost, although proving to be more challenging than expected. Organic wastes can be reduced majorly for all of the non green bin people.
Flicking off.
Turning off all electronics that trickle electricity overnight - TVs, stereos, cable boxes, computers.
No car, transit junkie. not necessarily by choice, but hey.
i promise to stop my rss reader from immediately printing your posts
ReplyDeleteThe toilet flush is a great saver that I've done for a while now. I'm just getting comfortable - or maybe less retarded - enough to do it at other people's places. If I am in your home, the likelihood of you being a person offended by urine is quite small anyways.
ReplyDeleteTravel mug is a guilt of mine. I like paper cups. I like oxygen a bit more though...