Earth Hour or not?

Since the Earth Hour day's approaching,

I suddenly thought of this… yes, while rinsing baby's cloth diaper…

I know, because of this "event", there're a lot of business people seeing business opportunity for this, ie. party…

Good and bad…

While, most of the people are busy "attending" one…

I was wondering,

How many!!

How many out of these people, who're attending the event, are a real earth person?

I'm not saying I'm one of them, at least, on the "earthian" basis,

I give myself, just a passing mark…

I mean, I don't strive hard to achieve one, but then, I do remind myself to be one…

Get it?

How many of these people, eat more vegetables? Or eat more organic farmed vegetables?

How many of these people, who happen to be parents, cloth-diaper their babies/toddlers, and mothers - breastfeed…

How many of these people, who actually shop minimally… (ok, just like my previous blog, I'm "on my way" there… at least, I know very well that, being a mother, make me a better person, kinda… and Praise the Lord for that…)

How many of these people, who don't drink, don't smoke… come on!! Party people!

My failed part is…

I need airconditioning…

The weather's very hot… damn hot… and I know, the more airconditionings out there, up and running, and hotter the weather will be…

Chicken and egg…

Another chicken and egg thing… the weather's changing, it's colder around this time, compared to previous years… again, due to the global warming or whatever it is…

Weather pattern's changing, kinda shifted… my layman-term observation, ie. it used to snow around dec-jan in the northern hemisphere, but it still snow… NOW… scary, if you ask me…

And because of this,

I acutally CAN, and able to sleep without airconditioning… the second half of the nigh… till the morning, till the noon… good huh?

So, minimal…

Another failed part is…

Gosh!! I've to on my PC… NO MATTER WHAT,

And, yes, NO MATTER WHAT…

I can live without the rest, but no, my life will be meaningless, without my PC, without internet…

What a big enemy to the earth, right?

Back to the Earth Hour thing…

Therefore, the whole thing, yes, I know, it's out of good will… but when it's turned into the money-making reason for business people, and while it's becoming so POPULAR…

How many of those people who SUPPORT the idea… actually live the idea?

My favourite quote…
"It's far easier to fight for principles than to live up to them." ~ Adlai Stevenson…

green mom green kid – a better tomorrow?

the other day, I had a weird dream…
I dream that, the end of the world is coming, that, the earth is going to tilt…
tilt as in, N-S pole’s tilt to where the existing equator is…
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17657-global-warming-could-change-earths-tilt.html

however, as I’ve mentioned a couple of time, now, my dream will always have baby…
maybe… maybe if I were to dream of such dream before I’ve baby, I won’t feel a thing, but now, even if I dream of my favourite “going for a trip” type of dream, it’ll be worrying…
as I’ll always have, “how’s baby going to cope?” type of worry… (I guess, that’s the price to pay, for being a mother)

while, a few weeks before, I came across this article,
http://greenliving.suite101.com/article.cfm/10_tips_for_green_parenting

I ran through the list,
to a certain level of consolation, I’m actually quite a ‘green’ mother…
well, I’m never a great person, and I’m never a person with great topic to talk about, or, to lecture others…
how others live, frankly, is not my problem, and I’ll never tell you that, my style is THE style…
I only like to gossip, or talk about tiny-mini bits of daily life with friends, who don’t talk about serious stuff… ^_^ it’s more relaxing that way…
come on!! you don’t want to end up in a conversation everytime you meet up with your friends, talking about life, talking about future, talking about things that you can’t really own, or things that you can’t really do, and you realize that’s the truth, and you start to get depressed, right??

[oh! let me detour a bit again… I just finished watching this jdorama, “BOSS”, and one of the episode is talking about a serial killer who believe in those type of killer/play-God type of personality, and the “BOSS” said, 2 types of people have this potential to become such type of killer, first type, is teenagers, who still have not lived in the reality world yet, second type, is middle-age people, who’ve lived the reality, and have realized that, their future is already ‘finalized’, and there’ll be no more changes, hm… interesting]

ya… off the list…
I did not purposely want to be green, as I said…
I don’t turn off my electrical items in my household, I like to put them on standby… (that’s bad)
and I don’t categorize my trash…
only 10% of my shopping time, I’ll ask for ‘no plastic bags’
but luckily, parenting make me a better earthian!
though… as I’ve mentioned, I didn’t start it on purpose… it’s only ‘thinking of the goodness’ for my baby… and it slowly lead to this result…
I inherited most of the stuff from my dear friend meiling for baby, her crib, her walker, some shirts, even old pairs of shoes, really, I’ll say 75% of those big/expensive items that you’ll need to welcome your firstborn…
we rarely buy toys for her, all her toys are given as gift when she’s born… (and I still don’t really believe in toys)
I chose to breastfeed, simply because I want to, and secondly, it save money – not because of all the ‘good’ things listed in all websites, or, it’s green…
I eventually switch to cloth diaper, simply because I want her to feel more comfortable… and not because of any other great reasons…
but eventually… I guess, it turns out as overall good result…
and, as for baby-friendly product… simply because it’s baby-friendly, but most baby-friendly product, happened to be environmental friendly…
for eg. Bud’s baby product – bought her baby bath shampoo, cream, massage oil, etc. cos, I thought I want to give her massage sometimes… and babies like to put their hands and feet in their mouth, so, you can’t simply give them other products than organic, cos, most of the other things are full of petroleum by-products…
and we visited the local organic shop again, Just Life, cos, we thought we want to get this baby rice cereal for her… ^_^

and now…
I think of my dream again…
IF, if tomorrow really is the end of the world due to global warming,
am I going to regret as I’ve not lived green enough???
and my baby’s going to suffer?
well…
I may not say “I definitely will, and I’ll start living green now”
but I will certainly hesitate, and have doubt…
and the doubt is good enough, to give you or me, the answer…