The summer heat has set in and the air conditioners are surely humming, mine included. That’s why now is a good time to start changing your habits. I’m sure (hopefully) people reading this post do more than their fair share to reduce their impact on the planet but all of us can always do more. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has a nice little article in today’s paper about saving money and the world at the same time. It’s cryptically titled, “Save $, save the world“, and offers some great tips on calculating and reducing one’s carbon footprint. Seriously, go to the carbon calculator link and see just how big of an impact you have on the earth by living a standard American lifestyle. It’s sick. I walk to work, use my car once or twice a week and live in a multi-family building and my impact is still alarming. Make some of the changes offered in the article and get that footprint down!
On a side note, I saw a preview of Michael Moore’s new movie, Sicko, and it looks very interesting. Say what you will about the portly gentleman but he opens eyes. I’m not claiming he’s as fair and balanced as . . . say, Fox News, but he offers a view point on issues not addressed by mass media. I think health care is this country’s number one domestic issue, and I think most people would agree . . . though homosexuals do cause an undue burden on the poor and help rich white homophobes get richer. Ah, screw helping people get access to good doctors and cheaper medicine. Michael Moore, why haven’t you made a movie called Homo yet? Banning gay marriage should be the focus of this nation. You’re wasting our time with this healthcare bull. Banning gay marriage will win us the war in Iraq. I wonder if Moore made a film supporting a conservative issue, might the right come out against it in principal, defeating their own ideology. It’s worth a shot.
I digress. I’m in a ranting mood today. That’s all for now, I don’t want to blow all my good points for the month in one post.
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