Here I am again after another long absence. I've had a lot of thoughts about the drought in California, about the permaculture principles, about alternative economies, about building community, but I haven't taken the time to sit down and write, because I've been a bit self absorbed lately. I would love to tell you that I've been very busy with extremely important things. And to some degree I have been. Check out this link to see what I've been up to. However, there have also been evenings when I just came home, and after dinner I flopped down in front of the TV exhausted and vegged out until it was time to crawl off to bed with this nagging feeling that I should be doing more. But each new day comes and I repeat the cycle, like a hamster in a wheel.
And then it struck me that isn't this a big part of how we have gotten into the situation that we are in economically, environmentally... socially. We have grown accustomed to looking out for number one, of taking the easy way, of doing what seems right at the time, of avoiding challenges, of finding excuses for putting off change. In fact we have grown so accustomed to it that we no longer even realize that we are doing it most of the time. I'm not saying that this is all of us, all the time. Many of us work hard and regularly to make this world a better place for everyone in the future, but as a society in general, we Americans tend to think more about our immediate gratification than of our long term good or the long term good of others or the planet. And the sad thing is, we are spreading this ideology to the rest of the world.
My challenge to myself and to all of us, is to think of one thing we can do in the next 30 days to reduce our impact on the environment, to implement that goal and to share our success with at least 1 other person.
