Hee hee! I SO love Soap boxes!! And I'm going to RANT just at the end of Lent, too. Shame on me. Brotherly love and all that aside, Easter coming right after Earth Day this year, it's very hard to take laying down!
PJ has yielded the zippiknits soap box to me, and so I am going to answer here.
I completely agree with you, PJ., and the whole upper echelon of the ruling class world wide better get on this bandwagon, too. They cause most of it, though they love to blame everyone else, saying if we didn't do this, or we didn't do that, this mess wouldn't exist. I see all that their companies do, and they themselves, the way they live, exuding terminal greed, for instance, and say, Meh!
Because I grew up in a rural area outside of a large city complex, nature was my first playground. We had a "crik", actually a small river, and lots and lots of woods to wander through. I miss that, and the amazing QUIET! San Diego is too noisy for me.
Seriously, we have a 7/24 battle forming up to save the environment, but there is hope. The next gen is really gearing up for it, despite never getting to go out there on field trips and all, which is all too true! Kids hardly even get to walk home anymore, let alone ride bikes off on their own.
The Scouts still camp, and teach about the "Big Woods", and "Bless Em" for getting the kids out there. Sierra Club and Audubon both have youth groups that involve the young members as do many other environmental organizations. It's hard for a kid to find time though. Environmental camps are starting to mushroom.
There is an organization locally that is called I Love a Clean San Diego that has been around for a coon's age, and it's been working along side the other organizations mentioned. Since you are landing here, I'll recommend them to you.
Here is their webpage of programs they participate in:
I Love A Clean San Diego
Ok, I'm hopping off the soap box. Anyone else?
PJ has yielded the zippiknits soap box to me, and so I am going to answer here.
I completely agree with you, PJ., and the whole upper echelon of the ruling class world wide better get on this bandwagon, too. They cause most of it, though they love to blame everyone else, saying if we didn't do this, or we didn't do that, this mess wouldn't exist. I see all that their companies do, and they themselves, the way they live, exuding terminal greed, for instance, and say, Meh!
Because I grew up in a rural area outside of a large city complex, nature was my first playground. We had a "crik", actually a small river, and lots and lots of woods to wander through. I miss that, and the amazing QUIET! San Diego is too noisy for me.
Seriously, we have a 7/24 battle forming up to save the environment, but there is hope. The next gen is really gearing up for it, despite never getting to go out there on field trips and all, which is all too true! Kids hardly even get to walk home anymore, let alone ride bikes off on their own.
The Scouts still camp, and teach about the "Big Woods", and "Bless Em" for getting the kids out there. Sierra Club and Audubon both have youth groups that involve the young members as do many other environmental organizations. It's hard for a kid to find time though. Environmental camps are starting to mushroom.
There is an organization locally that is called I Love a Clean San Diego that has been around for a coon's age, and it's been working along side the other organizations mentioned. Since you are landing here, I'll recommend them to you.
Here is their webpage of programs they participate in:
I Love A Clean San Diego
Ok, I'm hopping off the soap box. Anyone else?
I do a lot.. and have for years.
ReplyDeleteI started using CFB more than 20 years ago.. (and today only have 2 rarely used lamps with incandestent bulbs.
I had flow restricters in my shower heads more than 20 years ago, too.
my car gets 28MPG--and i live in a city were i can, (and do) take public transportation or walk.
but i also realize, I could do more.
but i am lazy, or greedy, or just in the habit of living easy.
I know many can (and should do more) but, since i am not perfect--i try to live with a sense of grace--and hope, that they are doing what they can--(even if i think they can do more)
If every one did as much as you do, this would not be a dire situation.
ReplyDeleteAll it takes is for everyone to be as conscientious as you are, and we'd be winning this thing. You are doing a lot and have been for decades.
Many people are just now realizing that cutting back is a lot easier than fixing the weather system, or cleaning up a river from the mud layers on up. We, as a people, are coming out of a long sleep.
What we DON'T need is people like the Koch brothers paying mouthpieces to wreck legislation; We need them to not be paying others to spread contentious lies that set back safeguards.
We need the honest ones in office and in business. We need people who know what must be done and will work for that, no matter who else tries to stuff their hip pockets with dollars on the sly.
WOW Zippi you are reading my mind!Boy ur good! I am filing that right now!!! I belong to a Golden Retriever Meetup group and just rejoined once more...4 years ago it was a group of about 50 now it's more than 100 & we love our beaches...I bet I might interest Sue (the organizer) into some clean up we could do with the dogs ;) After all-ALL Goldens have that mentality of 'the sun is out and I need to help you!' ...oh, gosh you got me excited!
ReplyDeleteGlad to get someone excited about something! See the tail wagging?
ReplyDeleteThose sorts of groups are exactly the ones who can really get behind a green movement, the animal lovers. We know what our big footprints have done to the other earthlings' "space requirements", for one thing.
Golden Retrievers are so lovely. They are just a little too big for me but they are just as you say; the quintessential, "What's up, can I go? I'm so into this! Let me help you! Please, Please!???" kind of dogs. hehe