We live in a time of the revisiting of old bad ideas, when the limited ideas guys of the world press for the promotion of "safe" nuclear energy, a return to whaling, totally oppressive working conditions, arms races between neighbouring countries, fundamendalist intolerant religions, overt political corruption that no-one cares about, etc., etc. Meanwhile, the Earth dies.

It can seem at times there's nothing that can be done, but I'm a great believer in the power of small things, and of changes being made by every individual person. In Tim Flannery's fine recent book, The Weathermakers, he lists 11 Realistic Ways You Can Help Reduce Global Warming. I've just done another one of them - I rang our power company and got all our gas and electricity changed to Green Power. If you're in Australia, you might like to click on the picture above and find out more, or overseas you could contact your power company and ask - please consider...

Labels: Global warming