June 12, 2007
Welcome to everyone who is visiting via No Impact Man, and thanks to Colin for sharing! We had almost 60 people join our email group in 12 short hours. It is thrilling to see that so many people are interested in reducing emissions! I really think that community is where this starts. Right now it may be online, but hopefully in the future it can also be next door. We never know who may be affected by how we live or what we choose to do. I spoke to my cousin tonight (Hi Cori!). We have not seen one another for many years. She told me that she reads this blog and is inspired to make some changes in her life. She may not be able to tackle 90%, but has planted fruit and is thinking about the choices she makes. Every person we encounter may be affected by what we choose to do. 90% may seem like a lot - but you may be closer in some areas than you think - and who knows who may be inspired by some of your choices.
Anyone experience this?
June 13, 2007 at 12:12 am
I took a cross-country air jaunt to visit relatives and added tons to the carbon load. Don’t know what offsets to trust so sent some $$ to Jane Goodall’s Institute. She uses locals to help their fellow tribesmen, and doing so helps her chimps and other species live, too. Africans will be on the front line of global warming, as will other so-called “Third World” countries. Australia is the first “advanced” nation to be suffering.
June 13, 2007 at 4:23 am
Yep. Just today I got an email from my in-laws seeking information about how they should go about offsetting their carbon emissions. It really didn’t matter what it was about; what mattered is that they have been affected by the choices that their daughter (my wife) and I have made. Another friend and I got to talking and he is now committed to finding local foods (which in some ways is pretty easy where he lives - on an island surrounded by tropical fish and crabs and fruits).
June 13, 2007 at 7:56 am
My mother and my in-laws now eat mostly organic. Today, there is a farmer’s market in a neighboring town and my MIL is going with me to shop and then we’re going to my food co-op buying group to pick up my bulk order and my in-laws now share our CSA with us. They recently replaced all of their lighbulbs with CFL’s. We had to remind them that they need to be sent to the hazzardess waste collection and not in the garbage, but other than that they have been very enthusiastic about the changes.
June 13, 2007 at 10:46 am
one of my co-workers said that she was thinking more about what she was throwing away with her lunch after seeing me use my hand towel/napkin at the group lunch table. it may not be that she takes any action, but something i did for me made her think about what she does, and that’s something!