It's a question that many of us are beginning to ponder more and more and for good reason. What does it mean to go green? It seems to me it's about awareness, recylcing, reusing, fixing things instead of throwing them away, flying less and enjoying your local community more, riding a bike and talking about what's going on right now, eating locally grown foods, and using more energy efficient appliances and light bulbs. Anything we can do that resists the mass consumerism society that we've built probably saves carbon output. We use a lot of energy and right now that energy comes mainly from fossil based fuels.

For years now the scientists have been trying to warn us but now, after 25 years or so, they're screaming and we're finally starting to accept the truth about the whole thing and that is: We are quickly running out of time. We're about to drop the ball on the biggest responsibility that human kind has ever been given and guess what? We can still fix this but it's going to take an effort by everyone. If we don't come together right now and act immediately our children won't have the same opportunity. By then it will be too late.

I just wanted to let you know that I am changing and becoming more aware. I've accepted the responsibility that's at hand and I'm going to try with as much effort as I can to do my part. No more excuses. We need to get involved at least in our own households. The first step to take would be to calculate your carbon footprint. From there you can start taking the necessary steps to curb your consumption of carbon. I don't think we should be shy to discuss this. The fact is that one day this will be the main topic of discussion. It can either be now and how we're going to come together to stop this global catastrophe or it will be later with gut wrenching sickness wondering why we didn't do anything when we actually had a chance.

If you've read this far I want to say thank you for listening. I'll end this with a quote from Albert Einstein and some links that you can use to start making a change today.

"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
Albert Einstein

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