In cleaning out my apt and making out a will,
I had to consider the value of everything I kept in my apt.
In reducing my load, I had to trash things I could not donate or pass along to friends or family.
Dana sent me this link about the
Story of Stuff.
Watch it all the way through.
It will make you think twice about consumption and our habits.
And a letter from another friend, Casey:
April 16, 2008
Dear Friends and Family,
In collaboration with a few other top-notch students of sustainability, today I'm launching a project aimed at creating a better future and I'd love for you to be apart of it!
We call the project 'Changing Tomorrow', and with it we hope to empower thousands of people to take steps towards living in a way that will guarantee all of us a secure and prosperous future. Changing tomorrow IS possible, and how we change tomorrow will be determined by the individual choices that each of us makes today!
The process is very simple:
The first thing to do is to view our video
at http://www.youtube.com/user/ChangingTomorrow. It's a brief and uplifting story about how people are taking action today to reduce their carbon emissions and combat global climate change.
Once you've seen the video, you'll be directed to visit our blog http://changingtomorrow.blogspot.com/. There you'll have the opportunity to comment on the video and select among a list of choices of personal actions that YOU will commit to in doing your part to ensure a better future!
After viewing the video and making your contribution to the blog, we hope you'll help us spread the word! In order to affect massive change, we're going to need massive participation, so we hope you'll help us get the word out there!
We're really excited about launching this project to you, our friends and family, and about the potential that this project has for unifying and moving a whole lot of people towards a very important objective. Your feedback on the project, the video, and the blog is very welcomed!
Thanks for joining us in this great effort and for your part in contributing to changing tomorrow!!!
Casey
Point is, we are all trying to make change in our own way. This week is a week dedicated to thinking about our place in our environment. If we all just begin to think differently about how we participate in this market economy and use our buying power for good, we might just make a lasting difference.
HAPPY EARTH WEEK.
Thank you all for caring and wanting to make a difference.
XO
SU
