Friday, October 27, 2006
on sustainability
For the first time yesterday, I heard a Nobel laureate speak in person. Wangari Maathai returned to her alma mater to recieve an honorary doctoral degree. Her message is a simple one (paraphrase):
we have one planet with limited resources..whether your an individual consumer or a politician..we must realize the importance of managing the earth's limited resources, and it is only through education and in a democratic space can this be achieved sustainably.
Every now and then we need a healthy dose of raw, infectious inspiration and who better to provide it than a prophetic, nobel peace prize winner. I also learned that:
Each one of us needs about ten trees for the amount of carbon dioxide we exhale in our lifetime.
Why wait to plant your ten trees? I got to walk my talk...I need to find a place to plant my ten trees.
we have one planet with limited resources..whether your an individual consumer or a politician..we must realize the importance of managing the earth's limited resources, and it is only through education and in a democratic space can this be achieved sustainably.
Every now and then we need a healthy dose of raw, infectious inspiration and who better to provide it than a prophetic, nobel peace prize winner. I also learned that:
Each one of us needs about ten trees for the amount of carbon dioxide we exhale in our lifetime.
Why wait to plant your ten trees? I got to walk my talk...I need to find a place to plant my ten trees.
# posted by Surya Swamy : 8:12 AM
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what i have done is dumped enough garbage into the stream in my area so that it fills with photosynthesizing algae, roughly ten trees worth. did you read the press release of how china pledged to reduce energy consumption by 20%?
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