My wife and I watched an excellent documentary
last night that we rented called "An Inconvenient Truth". It's a film
about climate change here on earth caused by the use of fossil fuels. Hmm, some
romantic date! After watching the film, I jumped on the computer and went to the
website that the film lists at the end-www.climatecrisis.net
and used the online "carbon calculator" to figure out how much C02 the
two of us were contributing to the atmosphere and to global warming. I have had
my suspicions and I was so pleased to see they were correct. Compared to the
average U.S. household, we were producing only about 1/7th the amount of CO2!Our
appliances are all new, energy efficient models, we recycle, use florescent
lighting, use our own bags when shopping, we don't travel much and we don't own
a car but we walk or ride our bicycles almost everywhere we go.
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The great thing is, we are not alone. You
can find many people like us all over Japan living similar lifestyles. It can be
very easy to live ecologically here if you know what to do- or more importantly-
do without. Some people might look at us and say that we are just poor. I prefer
to think we are saving up to buy something really big some day, say... a clean
planet. Any sellers?
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