green inspiration

"For fifteen years now, some small percentage of the world's scientists and diplomats and activists has inhabited one of those strange dreams where the dreamer desperately needs to warn someone about something bad and imminent; but somehow, no matter how hard he shouts, the other person in the dream - standing smiling, perhaps, with his back to an oncoming train- can't hear him. This group, this small percentage, knows that the world is about to change more profoundly than at any time in the history of human civilization. And yet, so far, all they have achieved is to add another line to the long list of human problems - people think about 'global warming' in the way they think about 'violence on television' or 'growing trade deficits', as a marginal concern to them, if a concern at all."
– Bill McKibben, 2003

Apparently this guy appears in a new film out called Everything's Cool, which sounds like a great documentary about people who are out there, putting their butts on the line trying to make others aware of what our government continues to deny is a real problem.

Bill McKibben will also be speaking in Berkeley on Monday, March 19th. I am inspired to listen to what he has to say and get re-inspired to get off my ass and do something more!

Speaking about getting off your ass and doing something about climate change and as David Suzuki puts it global weirding (since all sorts of weather patterns are resulting from too much CO2), have you heard about Step it Up 2007? Here is your chance to take some local action and be part of a national movement. I am planning in partaking in an event in Petaluma, California where we will mark off with yellow tape the expected change in the Petaluma River high water mark should sea levels rise 6 feet to 22 feet due to climate change/ice melt. This river runs right through downtown.

So there you have it: many inspirational ways to get active on global weirding.