And Still We Wait...

Were you somewhere today for the National Day of Climate Action? 

Not to worry, it was just the beginning, check here to see organizers' plan next for the STEP IT UP Campaign.

Through the John Edwards' campaign site,  four good suggestions were offered for individuals to reduce their carbon footprints.   Good idea, small problem.  Only the one about changing to CFL (compact flourescent) bulbs would apply to those of us living in apartments. 

Monday, April 16, offers a chance to join with the residents of our capitol, where basic social justice and the right to vote still eludes tax-paying citizens. 

This little red hen wishes there was a way to be get across to the general public that we are FOR many issues that have to do with the lives of those younger than us.   It was OWL Older Women's League whose email I first received urging that Don Imus be fired by the broadcasters who employed him.  I'd like to see more of that from organizations/websites/blogs directed toward the aging population.

A nudge from working Mom-friend Martha Lazar pushed me along to change a couple of bulbs last fall.  Her blog http://marthaknits.blogspot.com/ makes me wish to be a lace knitter in another life.  Mystery why  this was harder to do than bringing red wigglers into my home.   But when I despair about not being able to end the war, or move the world to compost, I know that two CFL bulbs are my personal challenge.  Maybe two more soon.

I propose we add to our national celebrations--Older Americans for Younger Ones.  September during Library Card Sign Up month could be a good time.

 

Comments

[Rhea]

I went to the rally today in Boston for the Step it Up campaign. I would say several hundred people were there. It was a good start!

[MOtherPie]

Appreciate all of your activism and loved your Oxacan (sp) tale on your earlier post! I've had adventures as a child and as an adult in Mexico. Love the country.

[doulicia]

Just catching up here. My conversion to CFLs has been easy but I don't like their light. It just isn't the same to curl up in bed with a fluorescent light buzzing away in the lamp next to me compared to a soft white bulb.

Such is the price of modern life. My personal commitment to change has been shortening my showers. My father was an ardent endforcer of short showers when I was a kid. Once I had the luxury of paying my own gas bills, it was worth it to me to wake up to a stream of warm water down my back.

Now I'm back to "just the basics."

[sahara]

Wow Naomi, I'm finally catching up! I'm so glad to hear that OWL sent you the info about Don Imus. There's hope. It's strange to be in the middle––older than youth, but not yet senior. You see the developement of conservatism and ambivalence towards today's youth, not based on logic, but self-regret.

In some trans-generational knitting groups I've been in, when younger women wanted input on issues STILL relevant to our lives as women, as in "what did/would you do?", some of the elders didn't want to go there. When I and some others did, we got looked at like we were airing dirty laundry. Why do women still want to spend time talking about pleasantries? This is why it's so hard to get condoms to my acquaintances.