What's all the fuss about?

Our planet is in trouble.  I'm trying desperately to get this point across, without sounding like someone shouting about doomsday on a soapbox.  I'll be heading out to Abundant Life Farm later in the month for the 2% Solution, but this is not the type of thing I wait to do.  I just get up (or in my case, sit on my fat duff) and do something about it.  Whether it's something to help the planet, or something to change my own life.

Picture this:  Lex Luthor (symbolic of all the multinational conglomerates and large industry -- and nations -- run by greedy barbarians disguised as men-about-town in their 3-piece suits) has our planet by the horns, and is driving humanity into extinction.  But what if there's no Superman to fly backwards and reverse time for us?  Oh, yeah, there isn't!  So what do we do?  Like proverbial lemmings we increase the rat race, head straight for a cliff and into our doom?  Well, yeah, as a species that's exactly what we do.  Am I the only person who finds that frustrating?

But as individuals we can each make a difference.  Change your shampoo.  Change your deodorant.  Bring shopping bags when you buy groceries.  Change a lightbulb.  That's all a good start.  Keep it up.  It's not just doing one thing each, try one thing a month -- then one thing a week.  Before you know it, you'll be doing one new GREEN thing a day.  Blog about it.  Shout about it.  Call your mom and have her join you on your mini crusade.  Feel good about it.  Celebrate it.  Wear it on your sleeve.  Brag about it.  Make being GREEN the next big IN thing (it is anyway, so get a head start before the runway models and supermarket rags realize it!).

Let's make being green a no-brainer.  Make it so easy to be green, it gets to be CHEAP to be green.  Yeah, it would take a few months, maybe a year, but take it to the point where NOT being green is like smoking in New York State.  People look at you like you've got 3 heads.  Where you used to stand outside puffing with the "In" crowd, now you're outside in the cold alone with your stained fingers and bad breath wondering when you missed the new health wave.

I want you to join me in Your Green Club.  It's about all of us.

So, I want to be a guinea pig for a bit.  I've been doing things different for a while, now I'm going to do thing differently and loudly.  I have the right lightbulbs, but maybe they're not in every socket in the house.  I have a box of ecologically friendly cleaning products on their way -- maybe I'll clean and blog and clean and blog and videotape and blog and you can see what I'm up to.  I'm going on an eco-friendly weight loss program.  I'll blog about it to you.  I'll let you know how it feels.  My next post will be a benchmark for my house.  Later, I'll benchmark about my weight.  Right now, I want to benchmark my state of mind.  More later.  Ciao, bella!