We've invented everything yes....
Cellphones, Airplanes, Cars, Laptops, etc etc etc
But.....
We've also invented toxic pollution on the side
We've overused earth natural's resources and we still do and we're now paying for the price and it's gonna get worse if we keep going in this rate
We've wrecked our eyes by watching too much TV / playing video games
We've wrecked our hearings by listening to music way too loud / going to clubs/concerts.
We've created the modern "illness" of numerous health problems by eating too much junk
We got depressed and too stressed out because we work too much and we worry too much
in short,
We're killing ourselves
But we are smart
We know what we're doing is not right
and We're going to make it right
Starting now..... not tomorrow, not later, Now !
Don't wait for others to start first, they're also waiting for you to start first, that way no one will ever start. So we all must start doing something.
Do what you can !
Anything !!
Less waste, Be less consumptive, Give back, Care more, etc
Do Now :)
Showing posts with label ^ Eco Do. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ^ Eco Do. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Time is ticking
We all need to do whatever we can to stop the world from going kaboom ;p
Stop thinking "They've got experts working on it, Why should I bother ?"
No... you need to take part in it.... in anything...
Just start by doing the simplest thing that you can do.
Try to care a little
I know the case is not that simple....
In some cases, when you are uneducated and you are poor, you are willing to do anything to earn a living. so life is hard for them.
that's why there are animal poachers, people who cut down trees, they do just about anything to survive.
The masterminds behind them is the one to blame, the one taking the most profits out of the whole situations.
Those are the situations that a lot of us don't have control of, unless of course, you're the one buying illegal orangutan baby or buying illegal wood.
But the things that we can do,
We need to understand that if we don't care, we won't have a place to live anymore.
"If we rise above 2 degrees, all hell breaks loose" David Suzuki
Haven't all the "unnatural" natural disasters lately given you enough hint ? or Do you need a bigger sign that the world is "angry" ?
You don't have to be an activist or live in a treehouse to help save the earth.
Start by doing whatever you can, bring your own cloth bag to supermarkets, bring your own water bottle rather than buying a plastic bottled water every time, don't waste water when brushing your teeth, don't waste water when washing the dishes, whatever..... anything... just start now.
There are a lot of sites that can help you understand more and will advice you what you can do to help save the earth, but you need to want to do it and you need to start now.
The bad thing is....
Since "time is ticking" there are more of the opportunists who think that they need to "take in" whatever they can and make the most money before the earth is depleted of all of its natural resources. They don't care, they're just greedy.
The good thing is....
There are more and more people who are aware of these things, they know that the time is ticking and they are working in doing whatever they can.
They're working in their own area of expertise, in eco-architecture, in eco-friendly products, in making movies to create awareness, in service design, in eco-travel, in eco-farming, in organic gardens, and in so many other areas and I believe it all starts in doing what we can in our simple everyday lives.
They are the optimists
They are the ones who has hopes.
We need to join them :)
As it is said in "Home"
"it's too late to be a pessimist"
"One has no right to say it's too late........I think if you feel that it is hopeless.......then shut the bloody hell up and get out of here, because you've given up, fine, that's your decision, but get out of here, there's no point in telling people there's nothing that can be done.........I'm not an optimist or a pessimist..........I just have hope"
David Suzuki
We don't know what's going to happen to the world, we don't know if all the destruction in the movie "2012" will happen.
But it's good to be scared, it gives you a reason to start.
What we do know is.... the world's suffering and climate change is real.
Do you want to have colder winder and hotter summer ?
Do you want to experience more hurricanes ?
Do you want the sea level to rise and drown continents ?
Watch these movies to know more
These are real facts.
You may choose to rent them instead of buying, you don't need another DVD to add to that pile of DVDs dusting away in your closet.
"An Inconvenient Truth" with Al Gore
"Home" narrated by Glenn Close
"The 11th Hour" with Leonardo Dicaprio
So now you know that Time really is ticking, faster and faster.........
Let's be hopeful, Let's do what we can
Stop thinking "They've got experts working on it, Why should I bother ?"
No... you need to take part in it.... in anything...
Just start by doing the simplest thing that you can do.
Try to care a little
I know the case is not that simple....
In some cases, when you are uneducated and you are poor, you are willing to do anything to earn a living. so life is hard for them.
that's why there are animal poachers, people who cut down trees, they do just about anything to survive.
The masterminds behind them is the one to blame, the one taking the most profits out of the whole situations.
Those are the situations that a lot of us don't have control of, unless of course, you're the one buying illegal orangutan baby or buying illegal wood.
But the things that we can do,
We need to understand that if we don't care, we won't have a place to live anymore.
"If we rise above 2 degrees, all hell breaks loose" David Suzuki
Haven't all the "unnatural" natural disasters lately given you enough hint ? or Do you need a bigger sign that the world is "angry" ?
You don't have to be an activist or live in a treehouse to help save the earth.
Start by doing whatever you can, bring your own cloth bag to supermarkets, bring your own water bottle rather than buying a plastic bottled water every time, don't waste water when brushing your teeth, don't waste water when washing the dishes, whatever..... anything... just start now.
There are a lot of sites that can help you understand more and will advice you what you can do to help save the earth, but you need to want to do it and you need to start now.
The bad thing is....
Since "time is ticking" there are more of the opportunists who think that they need to "take in" whatever they can and make the most money before the earth is depleted of all of its natural resources. They don't care, they're just greedy.
The good thing is....
There are more and more people who are aware of these things, they know that the time is ticking and they are working in doing whatever they can.
They're working in their own area of expertise, in eco-architecture, in eco-friendly products, in making movies to create awareness, in service design, in eco-travel, in eco-farming, in organic gardens, and in so many other areas and I believe it all starts in doing what we can in our simple everyday lives.
They are the optimists
They are the ones who has hopes.
We need to join them :)
As it is said in "Home"
"it's too late to be a pessimist"
"One has no right to say it's too late........I think if you feel that it is hopeless.......then shut the bloody hell up and get out of here, because you've given up, fine, that's your decision, but get out of here, there's no point in telling people there's nothing that can be done.........I'm not an optimist or a pessimist..........I just have hope"
David Suzuki
We don't know what's going to happen to the world, we don't know if all the destruction in the movie "2012" will happen.
But it's good to be scared, it gives you a reason to start.
What we do know is.... the world's suffering and climate change is real.
Do you want to have colder winder and hotter summer ?
Do you want to experience more hurricanes ?
Do you want the sea level to rise and drown continents ?
Watch these movies to know more
These are real facts.
You may choose to rent them instead of buying, you don't need another DVD to add to that pile of DVDs dusting away in your closet.
"An Inconvenient Truth" with Al Gore
"Home" narrated by Glenn Close
"The 11th Hour" with Leonardo Dicaprio
So now you know that Time really is ticking, faster and faster.........
Let's be hopeful, Let's do what we can
Monday, August 31, 2009
Something to think about
I've watched "Home"
Although the movie was kinda slow at first,
but it was unbelievably Breath-takingly Beautiful.
Everything is Magnificently Stunning.
btw, I love the Opera song at 1:15:57 - 1:20-45 and when the singer started singing at 1:17:00.
I've watched Al Gore's Inconvenient truth, The eleventh hour, and now HOME.
(I haven't seen Earth, tho)
and I know something must be done.... yes everyone should do something, or maybe stop doing.
But I don't know what.........
Almost everything in life involves depleting the earth of its resources, unless of course you breed trees.
I mean grow trees, how do you say it ? cultivate trees ? and sell the seeds and baby trees.
then probably, you're doing the earth some good.
But the Economy involves selling stuff and when people buy more, you prosper.
and that means you want them to buy more, thus consumerism, thus more digging on earth's resources.
Food Business, Restaurants, Cafes,
Packagings of plastic cups, plastic bag, paper bag, plastic straw, plastic spoons, they're still a waste.
Just take a look at coffee shops and how much plastic cups they're using.
I'm not blaming them, but I'm also looking for alternatives.
Yes there are biodegradable materials available, but they cost more, so most business don't use them.
It's not possible if people bring their own mug, then they'd have so much to bring with them, plates, mugs, utensils, water bottles and after that, they'd be needing water to wash the mug, utensils, etc.
Yes Restaurants can use only mugs and glasses, but what about takeaways ?
some Restaurants even prefer to use plastic cups, coz they're cheaper and you don't have to worry about breakages.
Supermarkets with the plastic bags.
How many times have you bought a detergent refill pouch, put it in a plastic bag,
and when you get home, the plastic bag is already torn and you throw it out.
How many times have you forgotten to bring your own reusable cloth bag ?
New alternative of a biodegradable plastic cost more, so of course people would choose the usual plastic.
But plastics get recycled,
Some just got melted down, releasing toxic gas and turned into smelly black plastic bag or buckets.
so yes they get recycled, but in a way dat's harmful to humans and the environement.
Clothes, Fashion industry
People don't wear last season's clothes anymore because ppl don't want to look outdated.
So they buy and buy and buy more and more and more clothes and shoes and bags.
Electronics are the same.
Take a look at mobile phones,
Everyone wants the newest models and they change their phone as soon as a new model comes out,
which could be monthly.
This is what I see in the everyday lives and even this could go on and on and on.
"faster and faster"
and I don't even know about the Pollutions and destructions caused by big Factories.
What can be done ?
"it's too late to be a pessimist" (from "Home")
One person can make a difference, one person can start a change.
So Let's start by doing the simplest things that we can.
Let's stop consumerism and let's stop wasting stuff.
Although the movie was kinda slow at first,
but it was unbelievably Breath-takingly Beautiful.
Everything is Magnificently Stunning.
btw, I love the Opera song at 1:15:57 - 1:20-45 and when the singer started singing at 1:17:00.
I've watched Al Gore's Inconvenient truth, The eleventh hour, and now HOME.
(I haven't seen Earth, tho)
and I know something must be done.... yes everyone should do something, or maybe stop doing.
But I don't know what.........
Almost everything in life involves depleting the earth of its resources, unless of course you breed trees.
I mean grow trees, how do you say it ? cultivate trees ? and sell the seeds and baby trees.
then probably, you're doing the earth some good.
But the Economy involves selling stuff and when people buy more, you prosper.
and that means you want them to buy more, thus consumerism, thus more digging on earth's resources.
Food Business, Restaurants, Cafes,
Packagings of plastic cups, plastic bag, paper bag, plastic straw, plastic spoons, they're still a waste.
Just take a look at coffee shops and how much plastic cups they're using.
I'm not blaming them, but I'm also looking for alternatives.
Yes there are biodegradable materials available, but they cost more, so most business don't use them.
It's not possible if people bring their own mug, then they'd have so much to bring with them, plates, mugs, utensils, water bottles and after that, they'd be needing water to wash the mug, utensils, etc.
Yes Restaurants can use only mugs and glasses, but what about takeaways ?
some Restaurants even prefer to use plastic cups, coz they're cheaper and you don't have to worry about breakages.
Supermarkets with the plastic bags.
How many times have you bought a detergent refill pouch, put it in a plastic bag,
and when you get home, the plastic bag is already torn and you throw it out.
How many times have you forgotten to bring your own reusable cloth bag ?
New alternative of a biodegradable plastic cost more, so of course people would choose the usual plastic.
But plastics get recycled,
Some just got melted down, releasing toxic gas and turned into smelly black plastic bag or buckets.
so yes they get recycled, but in a way dat's harmful to humans and the environement.
Clothes, Fashion industry
People don't wear last season's clothes anymore because ppl don't want to look outdated.
So they buy and buy and buy more and more and more clothes and shoes and bags.
Electronics are the same.
Take a look at mobile phones,
Everyone wants the newest models and they change their phone as soon as a new model comes out,
which could be monthly.
This is what I see in the everyday lives and even this could go on and on and on.
"faster and faster"
and I don't even know about the Pollutions and destructions caused by big Factories.
What can be done ?
"it's too late to be a pessimist" (from "Home")
One person can make a difference, one person can start a change.
So Let's start by doing the simplest things that we can.
Let's stop consumerism and let's stop wasting stuff.
Start now !
I was watching "The day after tomorrow" the other day.
and I just started thinking, How many disaster movies do we need until we all realize that we need to do something to prevent that kind of scenario. ;p
yes those movies are all fiction, but they're not entirely incorrect, they're based on facts.
But what about Al Gore's Inconvenient truth, or the Eleventh Hour, or Earth, or Home.
They're all Facts, they're all happening right now.
What about all of the "unnatural" natural disaster ?
floods, hurricanes, increasing temperature, etc etc
They're all happening right now.
Caused by us, human, by our ignorance.
by the pollutions from big factories/manufacturers producing more stuff for us.
we need to change our lifestyle.
We need to use less, buy less, waste less
We need to change Now.
What about using re-usable cloth bags instead of plastic bag ?
Yes it's true that it's way better.
But use the cloth bags that you already have !!!
You don't need to buy 7 different cloth bags to match your shoes.
How many bags do you have piling on your closet floor right now ?
See what I mean ?
It's sometimes contradicting, we need the economy to survive, we need to sell stuff to earn money, to give a better life for our family, but by buying stuff, means more production, more using the earth's resources, more waste.
It's kind of a ridiculous cycle really.
One way of doing it is by using renewable resources and biodegradable materials.
Yeah.... we can all use a natural fibre weave bag, but what ?.... it's all just a trend.
Pretty soon, we'll find ways to color it using toxic dye, apply a varnish coat for longer use, add plastic ornaments to bling it. They're all pretty but harmful to the environement.
What about all of those cheap plastic stuff available out there ?
They're toxic to use, they're toxic to the environement, but because it's cheap, we use it anyway.
What about all the electronics ??
People are always getting new technology, mobile phones, laptops, PC, cameras, handycams.
I just can't understand the need to change a cellphone that has a 3 megapixel camera with the one that has a 3.2 megapixel with a different color casing.
Consumerism has gotten out of control, people are dictated by trends and are embarassed when they are not up-to-date.
In the olden times, everything is repairable, spareparts are available.
But now, Older models electronics are no longer repairable because the manufacturers no longer produces the spareparts. By older models, I mean models that comes out 3 months ago.
Greed has taken control.
We need to change how we think.
We need to stop letting the industry tells us what to think.
We need to be in control.
We need to know when is enough.
We need to, otherwise the world isn't going to last.
We're not going to survive the near-future disasters.
We need to do something Now.
Do something, anything at all that will help.
Just start by not wasting more plastic.
That's a start.
What about using less water at home ?
There are tons of things to do.
Just start by not wasting stuff.
We'll start from there for now :)
and I just started thinking, How many disaster movies do we need until we all realize that we need to do something to prevent that kind of scenario. ;p
yes those movies are all fiction, but they're not entirely incorrect, they're based on facts.
But what about Al Gore's Inconvenient truth, or the Eleventh Hour, or Earth, or Home.
They're all Facts, they're all happening right now.
What about all of the "unnatural" natural disaster ?
floods, hurricanes, increasing temperature, etc etc
They're all happening right now.
Caused by us, human, by our ignorance.
by the pollutions from big factories/manufacturers producing more stuff for us.
we need to change our lifestyle.
We need to use less, buy less, waste less
We need to change Now.
What about using re-usable cloth bags instead of plastic bag ?
Yes it's true that it's way better.
But use the cloth bags that you already have !!!
You don't need to buy 7 different cloth bags to match your shoes.
How many bags do you have piling on your closet floor right now ?
See what I mean ?
It's sometimes contradicting, we need the economy to survive, we need to sell stuff to earn money, to give a better life for our family, but by buying stuff, means more production, more using the earth's resources, more waste.
It's kind of a ridiculous cycle really.
One way of doing it is by using renewable resources and biodegradable materials.
Yeah.... we can all use a natural fibre weave bag, but what ?.... it's all just a trend.
Pretty soon, we'll find ways to color it using toxic dye, apply a varnish coat for longer use, add plastic ornaments to bling it. They're all pretty but harmful to the environement.
What about all of those cheap plastic stuff available out there ?
They're toxic to use, they're toxic to the environement, but because it's cheap, we use it anyway.
What about all the electronics ??
People are always getting new technology, mobile phones, laptops, PC, cameras, handycams.
I just can't understand the need to change a cellphone that has a 3 megapixel camera with the one that has a 3.2 megapixel with a different color casing.
Consumerism has gotten out of control, people are dictated by trends and are embarassed when they are not up-to-date.
In the olden times, everything is repairable, spareparts are available.
But now, Older models electronics are no longer repairable because the manufacturers no longer produces the spareparts. By older models, I mean models that comes out 3 months ago.
Greed has taken control.
We need to change how we think.
We need to stop letting the industry tells us what to think.
We need to be in control.
We need to know when is enough.
We need to, otherwise the world isn't going to last.
We're not going to survive the near-future disasters.
We need to do something Now.
Do something, anything at all that will help.
Just start by not wasting more plastic.
That's a start.
What about using less water at home ?
There are tons of things to do.
Just start by not wasting stuff.
We'll start from there for now :)
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