My secret shame

I'm not really into blogging. I mean who really reads these things.  I guess why I feel it is safe to say: 

"My name is Erica and I'm eco-obsessive compulsive."

It has been my secret shame for quite some time (except for my roommates who were repeatedly harassed in to recycling everything)

I'm ashamed to admit that it took me a few months to get around to watching the 11th hour. I was impressed when I bought it because it actually came in recyclable packaging.  I avoided the movie because I was afraid of feeling depressed and helpless as I watched the images and absorbed the harsh reality (the inconvenient truth, as it were) and as a single parent working in the automotive field I was mostly concerned with feeding my children and caring for those around me.  I didn't think I could make a change on a global scale.  So I put watching this on my to do list and tryed to save the world as best I could, tightening faucets and turning off lights. I hate to admit to the garbage picking that went on...  I still can't put ANYTHING in the garbage. I will donate any useless thing to charity rather than add to the landfills,  I just can't.

As I said I am, for the time being, an auto worker.  When I first started my job people were talking about how Kyoto was just being ratified in Canada.  I was happy but I knew right then that it was going to cost me my job one day. I knew at that point I would be getting ready to do something else and that the big 3 would still be producing these shiny cancer causing dinosaurs.

So the day is here and I'm still not sure what to do. I was already frightened about the future so why not get right into it and face it all at once.  The thing is that I wasn't afraid after I watched it.  I'm hopeful!  I think it is possible that I can make a change, even if I still don't know how.  I don't even know how much longer I will be working, but I know that I will be leaving my polluted little town and going out west and from there I will meet like minded people...

My biggest passion at the moment is solar energy, maybe electric vehicles.  I bit my tongue at a child's birthday party last weekend when handed a bottle of water... there is a time and a place. Wind turbines get me all warm and gooey inside. :)

I was also thinking that there should be a movie that shows the possibility for the future. Like what a big city like LA would be with cleaner cars and solar panels (they also have waves that could power much of the city and surrounding areas)

With all the disaster movies out there people will feel helpless and keep these negative images in there heads. (the media is NO HELP in that area) we need a movie that shows possibility (Hopefully we can slip it past the oil companies and their lap dog politicians)  I know that http://www.thevenusproject.com/introResearch.php are working on a movie kind of like I have in mind.  The ideas expressed there are great for the most part but I don't know how soon something like that would be possible AND I don't think we should just give up on the old cities that we already have. We do need to start making what we have work more efficiently a.s.a.p., then we can switch over from there and preserve some of the more stunning pieces of architecture and historic sites as we go.

these are just some of my thoughts.  I don't know what good I've done expressing them but I intend to keep doing it until I figure out what to do next :) ec