Preach on sister. The more poetry & song the better!! On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 4:57 PM, jeni wightman <[email protected]> wrote:
> hey folks. > > I love Yes but i wish for LESS in my back yard. > > how about coming up w a 2010 goal by looking at 2009 energy bills > -gas for car > -electricity for home > -heating for home > -perhaps even think about items purchased and their embodied energy. > -etc. > and cutting your 2010 footprint. > make it like a bowling league, a book club, a competition. > you vow, you make it happen, you celebrate! you publicize and have utne > rank you as top progressive city in the country, again. > don't just drive a hybrid, drive it half as many miles. that is a > quadroupling of efficiency. that is the reverse exponential we so > desperately need! > can't afford a hybrid, drive 55mph max with your tires filled (each > doubling in speed is a quadroupling of wind resistance reducing your > efficiency). > can't afford a car, well then, good for you. the human body is extremely > efficient. taking the elevator uses 16 times the energy than if you walk > the stairs - (plus it pumps oxygen into my brain and helps me think.) > > enlist others and showcase your results in 2011 so to empower others to > follow suit w your innovative ideas. make a book, a collective blog, a "how > to do what we did", design a simple accounting system for others to > follow... spread the efficiency like a healthy plague, a map of nothingness, > no smog, no warming potential. a victory of absence! a celebration of not > used! an insistence it is the most social justice. a pride of ultimately > sharing. an invisible assertion. the making of NO THING, the slowing of > gears not of content, but of quantity. simplicity -she runs w a coy smile. > > while NY ranks 4th from the bottom in per capita GHG emissions in our > country, that is namely due to the intense energy efficiency of the city of > New York. But as a whole state, we are FAR from producing our own current > energy needs, even if we include the biomass, wind and solar potentials. > > so, the most progressive thing to do, is to reduce consumption. > it saves the limited natural resources > it prolongs our chances to use these resources to support the technologies > we want in the future. > it reduces air emissions such as particulate matter impacting asthma, > dioxin forcing immune and cancer disorders, and CO2 for climate change. > it protects forests from being cut down for fuel, it reduces pressure on > agriculture, it puts less wear and tear on our roads which require energy to > rebuilt, etc etc etc. > saying nothing about war, global equity, or basic decency. > > i know i am preaching to the choir. but with all my heart, we have got to > make efficiency sexy. put conserve back into conservative. make small > tasteful. > > and as we become more efficient, all these other technologies such as wind, > solar, hydro, bioenergy etc will be able to play a larger part (ie, you make > the pie smaller, these small parts take on bigger proportional slices) and > as they play a larger part, they'll be more financially viable. if you only > use a little, you may be willing to pay more. supply and demand curves can > be read many ways. not just more for less. let's take back the slogans and > demand less for more! > > mad love from afar... > j > > > _______________________________________________ > For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, > please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ > > RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: > [email protected] > http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins > Questions about the list? ask > [email protected] > free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org > -- There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good. - Robert Pirsig _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins Questions about the list? ask [email protected] free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
