Melting Ice – A Hot Topic?

Today was World Environment Day, thought up by the United Nations as a way to increase global awareness and political action. Every year one issue is chosen from the plethora to be the focus, along with it's very own slogan (see title of entry and cringe). While Coke promises to replenish the water it uses to produce it's sweet beverage...about 2.5 times the finished product and The Vatican plan to have solar panels installed by 2008, I wondered what I was doing to help the cause. Last year I slowed down on my consumption of my favorite British bottled water, Hildon and started to drink Brita filtered from my own kitchen tap...now I carry a bottle of Chicago with me at all times. I walk a minmum of 4 miles a day and take public transportation when necessary. A bad yet effective habit I have acquired is to write notes on my forearm, thus saving pages upon pages of ink script I will never reference. This has a bonus as I must attend to the note within an almost immediate time frame. I'm vegetarian...that's an easy one. I try to purchase only second hand clothes. I do have one major downfall...I waste energy by not turning my computer off! I remember my dad used to tell us that the TV needed to be turned off at the main switch and not just put to sleep. He quoted some silly fact that the TV uses 40% of it's full energy needed when in sleep mode. I doubt that was ever true or tested, but regardless I will turn the computer off tonight and all subsequent times when not in use.