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I didn’t forget!
So this morning I took about a 10 minute shower, not as short as I could (or should) have, but certainly better than some of the attempts I’ve made.
I do use mostly natural soaps lately, which aside from being exceedingly luxuriant, are also void of all the funky soap chemicals produced by your average soaps. Pretty cool on a number of levels, really.
I’ve also got one of those shower clean type sprays that’s made of things derived directly from natural sources. I don’t hafta scrub the shower as often, it smells good, and I don’t hafta worry that it’s going to eat holes in my skin somehow.
My toothbrush is recyclable! When I’m done with it, all I gotta do is grab a prepaid envelope and send it back to the company, and they’ll melt it back down into something new! http://www.recycline.com/ Those are the guys. They’ve got a full line of recycled and recyclable products.
Left the AC off for several hours last night. It’ll make my pocketbook happy too! YAY.
I walked to work this morning. I walk to work pretty much every morning these days. It’s only a couple blocks away, maybe a 10 minute walk if I’m slow about it. It’s environmentally friendly, health-conscious, and saves me from having to fuel my car as often.
I went and bought coffee from my local coffee shop. Which is good insofar as it supports local business. However, now I’ve got a plastic cup, lid, and straw that I’m going to end up chucking. Not to mention it’s cheaper for me to just make coffee using the coffee maker here.
I just noticed that my desk calandar is made of recycled materials! yaaay.
Speaking of recycling, I’m going to call my town recycling center and see if I absolutely have to use one of their bins to place cans, etc. curbside. If I can use one of my several empty bins to put stuff out for collection, that will be really awesome. Or I could just find the nearest collection center that will actually pay for my recyclable goods and do myself a monetary favor, too!
That’s what I’ve got for now.
I encourage others to share tidbits and suggestions. You are by no means required to adhere to my tendency to ramble in order to share. :)

http://thepartyparty.com/thepartyparty.com/Podcast/Podcast.html
Behind the “cut” image located here, is a video file of the most disturbing version of Sunday, Bloody Sunday I have ever seen/heard.
It’s safe for work, unless of course your boss is a real hardcore Republican who wouldn’t appreciate Bush footage being manipulated like that.
This site seems rather naked right now, not a lot of information to be had on what The Party Party is, aside from musically inclined.
Still I stumbled on this in my daily comb-thru of the del.icio.us RSS and felt inclined to share.
What do you all think?

This time he is taking aim at the global warming issue, as it has been stirred up lately by both An Inconvenient Truth and the subsequent answering television ads claiming that CO2 is a way of life.

This isn’t as decisive and cutting as I am accustomed to reading from Mr. Long, but as he himself admits, it is a very complicated and difficult for Joe Average to approach in an impartial and a well-informed manner.

Still, if you ask me, it ties back into personal responsibility. His assessment was very neutral, very info-gathering oriented rather than firing off his usual heavy slug of strong opinion. This was more of a buckshot approach, scattering some lead over this very broad and dangerous topic to make sure to hit at least a few key points.

One approach that he only hinted at, and I would have loved to see him persue, would definitely have been for him to raise the flag of Personal Responsibility. Little steps will help immensely in this situation, and people who are passionate about the environment (or claim to be so) need to take more action if they really do have ideas. To some degree, the early 90’s thought process of “it takes everybody to save mother earth!” is correct. However, realisitically, not everyone can devote the kind of time necessary to finding cures for our greatest sources of pollution. In this case, it really is up to the vocal, independant movements to muster up the courage to get out there and support the fine minds that will bring us alternatives to our current mode of life.

Which is really what it takes. Science got us into this particular postion. The industrial revolution’s brand of science, anyhow. Interchangable parts lead to disposable parts, the study of electricity leading to power plants of varying degress of smoke-belching, the development of vehicular advancements, the invention of plastic, the machinery that allows us to automate and speed up production of goods, and the list really does go on and on.

Realistically there are a lot of things that could stand to be shifted around. I myself don’t have a whole lot of ideas, but I know when something is a flat-out wasteful idea! In that light I myself do some little things which will in some way help. I won’t be toppling any major issues or winning a Nobel prize for my efforts, but it’s surely better than nothing.

Soon, I think it’d be a good idea for a lot of us to do a little inventory and see how many wasteful and how many useful things we do every day. The idea there is to knock a few items off that wasteful list, and add a few to the useful list. How about Monday? As of Monday morning, start making a few mental notes on your habits and - if you can - jot them down or type them out and see how you’re doing.

I will if you will. Who is with me?