Going Gaia

So this is my first Gaia31 blog entry. I intend for this page to record, and help me in, my efforts to 'go green'. Some people keep a food diary when trying to diet. Well, this is my version.

I have thought about keeping such an account for a while now but have only recently been inspired to get round to doing it. On a whim I bought the book '1001 ways you can save the planet: Practical ideas to heal and change the world'. I have bought other books like it before and been rather unimpressed. But with a 1001 different ways - I thought I might come across at least some ideas that I had not heard of before. And I was right. As I went through I wrote down a list of those that I thought I could easily adopt and integrate into my every day life. There are around thirty or so things on that list.

Like many people I have long had an interest in evironmental issues and have been lucky enough to enjoy four years at university which provided me with ample opportunity to read around the subject and day dream about what might be. I do not for an instant think this blog will inspire anyone or that anything I can do will in itself 'save the world'.

Yet I have never been much of a defeatist and just because I individually can not do much to alter the bigger picture, it does not excuse me from at least trying.