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Perverse as it might seem, I've always thought there was a big advantage in being born fat. It meant- at least for me- that from the get-go I identified with, and was much more open to, people and ideas that were ab-normal. Since I was never ever like everyone else... or at least not what society told us we should be like... I felt pretty free to embrace any peculiar, interesting or unpopular notion I fancied. Made friends with all sorts of interesting folk that others avoided. Took pride in my rebellion against the notion of "average".
Though i'd been like this throughout my growing-up years, it exacerbated when I went to college in 1971. Having spent my high school years in a small, conservative Connecticut town, the closest I'd come to "the Summer of Love" was singing in the Folk Club. Sex was something I was still avoiding as a good Catholic girl. I had so little understanding of recreational drugs that I thought girls who wore long sleeves in the summer must be "shooting up"... whatever that meant. And I didn't know a whole lot about Rock 'n roll, though it certainly had its dangerous appeal. What I did know was that I thought there must be a better way to live than the same same sameness of my little town.
So I was ripe for hippiedom. Eventually soon the sex and rock 'n roll would become much more a part of my life, and even the drugs in a very very minor way (I'm WAY too disgustingly responsible), but what really captured my heart was the "common sense" of it all. The campus hippies I knew wore beautiful India print cotton skirts... and knew more about India and "comparative religions" than anyone i'd ever known before. They baked their own bread and made their own jams.... without food coloring. They planted vegetable gardens behind their dormitories. They ate less meat and more lentils. They carried their own bags to the health food store and bought their peanut butter in bulk... filling scratched old plastic containers they'd filled dozens of times before. They set-up childcare and food cooperatives. Rode bicycles and car-pooled (when they weren't hitch-hiking). Volunteered at the local fire department. Went to the town meetings. Protested inequality and prejudice. Worked for political candidates they believed in. Organized blood drives. Put solar panels on their roofs and collected rainwater. Talked to farmers about the evils of pesticides. Looked you deep in the eye when they talked to you, and listened as often as they talked. "Reduced, reused, and recycled" long before it was a slogan. Thought globally, and then acted both globally and locally. Made me really THINK about my actions and their consequences.
I'm hardly a model citizen. I own far more than I strictly need, and I get lazy sometimes. But an awful lot of who I am was learned from those "common sense" folk who taught me that you really are part of the problem if you're not part of the solution, and that greed and self-centeredness are destructive to society. That community matters. Local AND global.
I've been thinking a lot about this lately, and especially this week. In one of those strange cosmic coincidences, on Wednesday I both began reading Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel"- a Pulitzer Prize winning tome that attempts to show us how our various cultures evolved from their pre-historic roots and which I assume will shed some light for me on how and why differing cultures make decisions now- and attended a preview showing of the latest WAKE UP FOLKS! documentary- "The 11th Hour"- which is both a sobering chronicle and condemnation of the ways in which we have damaged our planet through greed and neglect, and a primer for some of the ways we can mitigate or even undo some of the damage.
The book, which I'm only about 100 pages into, is beautifully written for the layman by someone who seems to be able to put aside his own innate cultural prejudices to look at all of history with a clear eye. In the spirit of "those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it", I'm hoping I'll come away from his writing with a better understanding of why hate and "superiority complexes" seem to plague so many people and nations these days, and what pitfalls we can endeavor to avoid in the future.
The film- truth be told- is not near as well produced as last year's "An Inconvenient Truth", and the imagery is shockingly low-tech in this day and age of "the media sells the message", but for all that, in some ways I think it's the more powerful film. Where Al Gore & company focus on the single issue of the environment, this film- with it's innumerable talking heads- makes a much stronger case for the roots of our problems being in our greed and laziness. And where I think Al & that team did a better job at the end of "An Inconvenient truth" to give you the small tools we need to make important corrections to our "ostrich with their head in the sand" behavior (is that even a true metaphor- do ostriches put their heads in the sand???), I think Leonardo DiCaprio and his erudite peeps make you feel a bit more ashamed if you don't use them.
So most of my life, I've tried to do what I think is right day to day. Think about the consequences of my actions. Act in a way that impacts my community positively. Utilize common sense solutions to problems. Be active politically and in my community. Leave as small an imprint on the planet as I could. But even those of us "grown-up hippies" who think about these things and really do care, have been selectively blind to all that we've not been doing. It's not enough for me and you- and I feel confident that those reading this try to do their part too, hippies and closet hippies alike- to act responsibly. We have to do even better ourselves, and then find a way to make all those "normal" "average" folk who chose to ignore the dire consequences of their lifestyles sit up and take notice. Make them understand we ALL need to take action. I'll be happy and proud when all those normal folk morph into the ab-normal citizens I've always admired. I hope I'm part of making that happen.
There's an awful lot to do- immediately- if our children's children are not to go the way of the wooly mammoth. As one of the talking heads eloquently reminded us. The earth will survive. We're the ones who might not.
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Where to start???
Here are a few of my pet peeves/causes. What are some of yours?
• people who refuse to recycle because it's too much work.
• people who buy drinks in deposit bottles and then throw them away instead of recycling them.
• people who think wind power is unsightly and that solar power is unnecessary
• able-bodied people who not only refuse to car-pool or use public transit when it's available, but who waste fuel driving around the parking lots of our temples to conspicuous consumption until they find the closest parking spot to the door.
* people who make fun of electric cars and seek the status of owning armor-plated SUVs
• people who use precious resources to make the zillions of plastic gee-gaws that tempt you at the check-out counter of every store and "inconvenience" store on the planet, and those who have to have those useless things
• people who buy designer water in plastic bottles- ignoring the effect their manufacture has on the environment- rather than working to ensure that industry does not pollute our waterways in the first place
* those who believe that their procurement of personal wealth is more important than the health of their workers and neighbors
• those who believe the purpose of a corporation is to make a PROFIT, rather than to fairly compensate it's workers, and create something that has a positive impact on society.
• condo associations that prohibit clotheslines. Hellooooooooo!
• politicians who believe their electability, and support from industrial interests, is more important than doing the right thing when it comes to legislation.
.... I'd better stop here before I go on for days.
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Happy Earth Day 🌎
We are on the road again visiting family in Colorado - I look forward to catching up with you when we return and hope you all have a wonderful new week ahead - Think Green! 💚
check out cool stuff, from a cool guy. might not be for everyone, but it sure is for me ;-)
have two different styles, one in my kitchen, one in my biffy.
i think you should think about joining the spoonman movement.
reduce-reuse-recycle...
vertical gardening-- i'll bet you could plant an herb garden this way, also
ODC "live plant"
Human prosperity need not cost the earth......
Living sustainably is about doing more and better with less. It is about knowing that rising rates of natural resource use and the environmental impacts that occur are not a necessary by-product of economic growth.
June 5, World Environment Day 2015
United Nations Environment Programme
Made a camera wrist strap, using some polymer clay beads made by my mom. Also took some empty film rolls and made keychains.
hope everybody is having a wonderful holiday week and weekend!! so excited for Easter.. this year Ben will be old enough to participate in an egg hunt ;-) which will probably be more fun for me.
today is also earth day
.. so i wanted to do something that represented how much we and the ecosystem are interconnected..and that by becoming aware and making smart choices and changes, we can create a better world for our children for generations to come..
the hug was a happy accident.. i think it worked out well
HAPPY EARTH DAY... please----
LISTEN~~REDUCE REUSE RECYCLE!!!
I great art supplies organizer! I covered it in clear packing tape to make it stronger and last, I also filed in holes in the bottom with cardboard!
in the back of our school, the parents and kids constructed a greenhouse using recycled bottles to retain the heat. there are tables for the plants.
ANSH scavenger12 habitat
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Taken for the group, Macro Mondays. This week's theme is Trash and Rubbish.
These small pieces of duct tape were found on my lawn after our gardener repaired some irrigation pipes in the outdoor planters. These pieces had been buried in a planter for over a year. Even tatty old duct tape can be beautiful...
Remember to reduce, reuse and recycle!
If you are interested, here are instructions for making a duct tape wallet:
www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Duct-Tape-Wallet
More creative uses of duct tape:
artcar.blogspot.com/2008/09/15-creative-uses-for-duct-tap...
This male goldfinch, coming into his breeding colors last month, looks worried. I am, too, at the state of the Earth under this nihilistic administration, and I urge my friends here on Flickr to do everything you can to support organizations—such as Earthjustice, Greenpeace, the League of Conservation Voters, the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Wilderness Society, to name a few—that are resisting the government’s attempt (putting party and corporations before country and the health of its citizens), to destroy wildlands and to roll back regulations that protect our water, land and air. Also sign petitions. Also let your legislators know you want them to stop kowtowing to the polluting industries and do everything they can to combat climate change. Do your personal best to conserve energy and #ReduceReuseRecyle. On this Earth Day, let us rededicate ourselves to this fight for our planet and all the creatures on it.
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Having reacted to lockdown by sowing hundreds of seeds that I wouldn't normally have time to nurture, here I am trying to minimise the acquisition of plastic that tends to accompany seed sowing...
a discarded juice carton lies in a puddle surrounded by grass, a stark reminder of pollution amidst natural beauty. the reflection of graffiti in the water juxtaposes the carelessness of littering against the calm of the environment, urging a reflection on the impact of our actions.
Walking on the sidewalk in Middleburg, Netherlands along the canal...the tops of the house boats were eye level. I loved the quirkiness of this particular garden.
Recycle Alabama / it’s easy – http://www.aeconline.org/recycling/where
www.rismr.com/2014/09/16/start-where-you-are-use-what-you...
In an effort to respect and cherish the world in which we live, I am trying to 'go green' a little more each day by recycling, bringing cloth bags to the grocery store, using less electricity and most recently, replacing all the bulbs in my house with energy smart bulbs. As I was replacing them this afternoon, I found a bit of inspiration in their mundaneness (the best kind of inspiration, I think), so excuse the redundancy as I have one more bulb shot to post a little later. ;)
After checking out a number of office furniture options I decided to go truly green and reuse what I already had. I started by using the left over paint from our newly repainted powder room. (Devine Latte) The white shelf is an old bi fold closet door that was in the garage, the black counter top above the desk is also an old bi fold closet door painted with chalkboard paint. The desk is a pocket door we no longer needed because we ripped out the wall it was in. The only new things I purchased were to up the funky factor...the shelf brackets, the legs to raise the top part of the desk and the legs for the desk and cabinet~which you can only see a sliver of in this picture. (of course they also do a nice job of keeping the shelves on the wall and the desk up!) Oh, I also bought three magnetic boards as well. Blake made the wooden shelving units underneath the desk for me to use in my classroom years ago.
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