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Having worked in the energy industry, I am always wary of the tree-hugging greenies who insist on exhorbitant flights taxes, renewable energy for all and no packaging for any food. And of course, all for a very cheap price. I do not believe in extremism (unless the word chocolate is in there somewhere) yet I always think that one should do as much as they can. There is no point staying under your shell and never leaving your country of residence due to CO2 emmissions – what sort of ignorant children will you breed then? And as an acciddental migrant, the fact that my instant noodles were flown across the world or my salted duck eggs sailed seas to get to me is really irrelevant to my inevitable homesickness.
But it definately does not mean that I am just out there with my light-saber preparing to slaughter the world. And unlike many people I know of who is all talk about saving the world but no action, I am in the progress of changing my habits whenever I can.
Today is Earth Day. What have YOU done for your planet?
I have:
Converted most of my lightbulbs to energy saving sort
Walk around the house turning lights off that bacon had left in his blazing trail
Lowered my heating to 16 degrees
Restrict heating to 3 hours at night and 2 hours in the morning.
Iron really quickly (thus the burn!)
Try extra hard to remember to use my own bags for grocery shopping
Do not use separate plastic bags designed for grouping loose fruits & vegs.
Request for no bags for items small enough to fit into my handbag (creams, hairbands ect)
Try extra hard to recycle, even though it means glass bottles collecting dust in my kitchen before my next trip to the bottle bank
Recycle magazines, plastic containers & newspapers
Happy earth day!
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Pingback by packaging 04.22.08 @ 11:59 amHahaha…I don’t have a baby ler, so 16c is quite okliao. The key is you need to turn the heating off at night when you sleep, as you don’t realize how cold it gets anyway, and have it turn back on in the morning just before you wake up.
Comment by sourrain 04.23.08 @ 8:34 amand remember to switch of the lights when you leave a room 
Three cheers to a good start!
I drank beer and passed out. So that was my bit for saving energy.
Trivia tidbit…..I got sent to the principal’s office for disrupting the school assembly on the first Earth Day in 1970. Am I old or what?
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Pingback by duck eggs 04.24.08 @ 2:48 pmskipps: It will depend on whether you were in nursery school or high school in 1970..if you started in nursery school I would be VERY concerned!!
Lisa: I think what I can’t seem to do is to turn the tv completely off and not leave it at standby! But hey, step by step huh..
Comment by sourrain 04.27.08 @ 8:51 pmMiddle School. We had an assembly-but no one had any idea what to do on Earth day-so we and my friends made a lot of noise.
My Dad did his bit that night to save the environment-he found a lot of innovative uses for his leather belt that evening teaching me to respect school authority.
Comment by Skippy-san 04.28.08 @ 8:10 amSkipps: Ouch.
Ahh..those were the days where parents & school authorities freely beat submission into kids. The times when I was caned and not able to hold a pencil afterwards – you would think that they would at least find a punishment where I would be able actually finish the homework that actually got me caned in the first place…
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