So, today is Blog Action Day, where tons of bloggers are all posting about the environment. Personally, I love the environment because it's part of where we all live. Think about it.
You come home to a dirty house after a long day. You're already tired and it seems like it's just too much effort to take a few minutes to pick up old dishes or throw your clothes in the wash. There are stacks of papers everywhere, and an unpleasant smell that apparently has no source you can find. Day after day, these kinds of nasty things build. One day you notice there are bugs everywhere and mold growing on the walls, but you still do nothing. Every day the house gets worse and worse. It makes you feel bad and also starts to make you feel sick. The next thing you know you've let it go so long there's no way it can be saved. Your house becomes condemned and has to be torn down and you've got no place to live. Your body can't take the prolonged exposure, you get really sick and start to die.
This is a worst case scenario for someone's neglected house. Most people wouldn't let their house go this long without doing something about it. However, we all share the environment and the Earth as a home and each day we let things go until it's almost impossible to salvage it.
We don't have to do this. We have the knowledge and the means to stop a lot of the factors that are poisoning our collective home. Find a way to make a small change in your life that helps the environment. Once you're used to that change, make another and another until you are doing several small things that help. Go Green.
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Blog Action Day takes place on October 15, 2007. If you have a blog, please sign up and join the fun. The goal is to get as many bloggers as possible to write a blog about the environment on that day. This is not a solicitation to become an activist or a hippie. Even if the environment is not a priority in your life, it does affect the quality of your life. So if you have a blog ( and a sense of self-preservation) take this day to reflect on the giant home we all share called Earth.
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They've finally found a way to recover our petroleum based resources through recycling plastic. Basically, they nuke the plastic at various microwave wavelengths until it returns to oil and gasoline. You can read the full article by clicking the title of this post. I'm hoping that this brings some value back to recycling plastic to make that effort more worthwhile.
Also, due to some other projects, this blog has temporarily fallen to the wayside. Hence today's post to let you know that this is still actively updated. I have had tons of ideas and incidents that would make great post fodder, but nothing long enough to merit it's own post. So, I have decided to stage a blog-a-thon of mini-posts. The time and date of this event is still TBD, but should take place sometime in the next 2 weeks. Please keep an eye out for it.
For my other contributors, I'll give you some advance notice, so if you want in on the action you're welcome to do so. These are just random posts and don't need to be full-fledged rants, stories, or articles. I'd love to see some non-dre action on here, so gear up!
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