My first resolution for the new decade is to not just be ‘green’ but learn more about climate change. Unfortunately news and alerts on climate change and the environment seems to mesh into the general background noise of day to day life. This year, I want to change that, at least for my household!
Volunteering Locally
To this end, I’ll apply to volunteer at local community projects in Marrickville and Newtown such as The Watershed. There are also a number of other projects from bush regeneration through to working on a local community nursery that look like they could be both fun and educative.
Learning
Of course everyone learns about recycling and pollution but climate change now has a political and business agenda.
@ActionAid_aus tweeted a link to a great resource called ‘The Story of Stuff Project’ which managed to explain in plain English but without being patronising (unlike the notorious Westpac ‘banana’ video) the mechanics and downside of Cap & Trade carbon trading systems.
It’s a perfect example of using Flash video with simple navigation and entertaining animations to illustrate a topic that is not necessary the most compelling for a Jo Bloggs like myself.
Check out the site here for more information on how you can get involved.
Growing our own veggies
After an amazing start unfortunately my green beans, cucumbers and capsicum plants were decimated by a stink bug, one morning I awoke to find nothing but stalks. The stink bugs didn’t like the strawberries though and gave these a wide berth. It will be a fresh start for 2010 and hopefully with a bit of meshing it will be the last veggie massacre.