EARTH HOUR

The following except and more information can be found at http://wwf.ca/earthhour/

"On March 29, 2008, cities across Canada, and around the world will turn off their lights for Earth Hour, a WWF event to raise awareness about climate change and symbolize that, working together the people of the world can make a difference in the fight against climate change.

Earth Hour has grown from a single event in Sydney, Australia in 2007 to a global phenomenon that will occur across six continents and in as many as 20 cities in 2008.

Toronto was the flagship Canadian city to commemorate Earth Hour 2008 but dozens of others including Ottawa, Vancouver and Montreal have already joined!

Our goal is to get thousands of businesses and individuals to participate in this historic event, so we can show the nation and the world that Canadians are leaders in addressing climate change, one of the most critical issues facing our world today."

green consuming

green consuming is akin to sustainable development: there must be some really strange utterly elusive balance for it to not be an oxymoron.

but we can all do our part. here's a cute chart from Greenpeace's enews.

No Inspiration, but I'll copy your ideas

On Facebook there is a graffiti application where you can draw a pic using a circle brush of various sizes, and can control for opaqueness. you then have a palette to chose from. there are some really amazing pieces on the public gallery!

i have trouble drawing on the computer tho, because i'm left handed but i use my right hand for things like machinery and other devices so thoughtlessly designed for the majority. i also think it's weird to draw with mouse instead of a pen, but many seem to make just as many beautiful drawings with only a mouse as those with a pen. i guess i can only blame my skills for that one.

any how, despite my lefty handicap, i think i draw okay. i took a drawing that inspired me, and which i wanted to improve. on this one i felt the leg in the air was too far back, so i wanted to redraw it with the leg where i wanted it. i didn't really look at the other person's drawing while doing my own. it was from memory, which is why they look nothing alike, except of course the concept of a gurl lying on her belly touching a flower. note i left out the whole message about the flower changing her world form black and white to colour. oh well, i say. i think mine is warmer any ways. and if the point is to feel happy when looking at the picture, then mine wins. but maybe i'm biased because i drew it.





and as a comparison, here is one of my favorites found on the public gallery:

Quarterly Report on My New Year Resolutions

Here's a refresher on my previous post:

1)Read more!

2)Get Job

3)Eat according to my moral standards: eat more locally and organically.

4)Worm Compost

1)So the reading more bit doesn't have to start until i actually graduate. I mean i'm doing all my readings, but that doesn't count, because i would never read R v. Toronto Electric Commissioners for my own interest, even if it makes me a more interesting person.

2)This semester I have been doing some SASS career counseling and made use of their online services about cold calling as well as had a resume critique done. I've also applied to a job in hopes that it will be the only one i actually have to apply for- but we all know that's not how it works. *le sigh*

3)Well this one i've done pretty good so far. I've made a conscious effort to eat as much as i can foods that have less packaging. this involves not buying prepared foods when possible, and buying foods in bulk when possible. in addition, i've reduced the amount that i eat out. also i've increased the amount of organic food i eat dramatically. it's quite impressive. i can make entirely organic meals (excluding spices) nowa days. :) as for the local aspect, i haven't done much more on that front, i still buy when there is a choice between local and farther away, but i haven't done any thing in addition to improve the status quo.

4)Ah, the worm compost. well i talked to my roommate about it, and she seems happy about the idea, but i really haven't made any steps toward getting one. even more sad is that i haven't been doing the interim plan of bringing my compost to campus. so, in light of this, i will now being to do that, and perhaps the inconvenience of trekking my waste across campus will force me into starting my worm compost.


So because resolution 2 doesn't kick in yet, the resolutions are out of 3.
i get a 2/3 for making an effort in most of my resolutions. YAY!