Gearing up for change
How can I contribute what I can with what I have? Well, I'll just go bring these rotting peaches and cantaloupe rinds from the Meals-on-Wheels kitchen to compost at the Hazelwood Urban Garden on Lytle. And every Wednesday I help close the farmstand and compost biodegradables like veggie waste and cardboard from there. And tomorrow I'll help finish building the shed at the Flowers Avenue community garden. And next week some chemistry and biology majors from Carlow are coming to help site and build a composter (larger than the usual home composters), and I'll help with that. And I'm just now writing about these things - not to crow but to do my part and get my readers (if I have any) to get more into serious gear to help regenerate the Earth.
If you don't know that we humans have an effect on the environment and so can make things worse or better by our actions, then I've no use talking to you, you're lost. You won't be able to see until you get your head up out your...out the sand. If you think the problems are too big to make it of any use to try, you need to see that the only way to be happy is to try. Do your part, that's all. Just do your part and you'll sleep better at night. Don't worry about whether or not your little part is going to make a difference, just do it. Do it for yourself, to maintain your sanity. Keep trying - regardless of how hopeless the world looks - just to maintain your self-respect, or to regain your self-respect if you've already given up and stopped trying. Try just so you'll look good in others' eyes, you'll look like a hero. Try just because it feels good to try. Try because then you won't feel guilty for not trying. Get up each day and do the
best you can (even if you fail) because you'll get to heaven that much faster (We're all going there eventually). Try because your brain secretes chemicals that make you feel good when you get up and move. Get up and do something positive, because if you don't you'll vegg out and eventually do something stupid.
They got rid of the 56U bus to Oakland. And they're intending to get rid of the 56 McKeesport in January. Did I get depressed when I found out? No. I got scared, because I recognized this as one more detail in a historic pattern which has been making a fewer people richer and an even greater majority ever closer to stark poverty. Then I got mad, because there are among us many who are so thoughtless as to not see that the road we're taking is leading straight to massive suffering. We MUST see each other as family and act accordingly or none of us is going to make it. Of the 25,000 plus vehicles per day that go up an down 2nd Ave, the vast majority of them have empty seats. Just think of the causes and consequences of that. We're pissing out greenhouse gases faster than ever while the Earth's ecosystem is warning us to cut our emissions. It's like a car which hasn't even applied the brakes yet - and is in fact speeding up - approaching a
collision which will be hard not to interpret as tragic.
One more time, we don't need more cars, we need much more efficient public transit. Call your politicians and tell them it's curtains for them if they don't make better decision.
Is anybody taking the "recycle" and "recyclable" and "Please recycle" printed on cardboard to heart? I'm looking for a site or sites to compost cardboard and other organic wastes in larger amounts than is possible in those backyard composters that are popular. If you have a place, an idea, or would like to participate in any way, please get hold of me.
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Jim McCue
St. Jim the Composter
412-421-6496
composter and biotech researcher
http://bioeverything.blogspot.com/2009/02/celebrate-earth.html
http://hazelwoodurbangardens.blogspot.com
http://facebook.com/alllifelover
http://plentyoffish.com/member498447.htm
http://hazelwoodhomepage.com
If you don't know that we humans have an effect on the environment and so can make things worse or better by our actions, then I've no use talking to you, you're lost. You won't be able to see until you get your head up out your...out the sand. If you think the problems are too big to make it of any use to try, you need to see that the only way to be happy is to try. Do your part, that's all. Just do your part and you'll sleep better at night. Don't worry about whether or not your little part is going to make a difference, just do it. Do it for yourself, to maintain your sanity. Keep trying - regardless of how hopeless the world looks - just to maintain your self-respect, or to regain your self-respect if you've already given up and stopped trying. Try just so you'll look good in others' eyes, you'll look like a hero. Try just because it feels good to try. Try because then you won't feel guilty for not trying. Get up each day and do the
best you can (even if you fail) because you'll get to heaven that much faster (We're all going there eventually). Try because your brain secretes chemicals that make you feel good when you get up and move. Get up and do something positive, because if you don't you'll vegg out and eventually do something stupid.
They got rid of the 56U bus to Oakland. And they're intending to get rid of the 56 McKeesport in January. Did I get depressed when I found out? No. I got scared, because I recognized this as one more detail in a historic pattern which has been making a fewer people richer and an even greater majority ever closer to stark poverty. Then I got mad, because there are among us many who are so thoughtless as to not see that the road we're taking is leading straight to massive suffering. We MUST see each other as family and act accordingly or none of us is going to make it. Of the 25,000 plus vehicles per day that go up an down 2nd Ave, the vast majority of them have empty seats. Just think of the causes and consequences of that. We're pissing out greenhouse gases faster than ever while the Earth's ecosystem is warning us to cut our emissions. It's like a car which hasn't even applied the brakes yet - and is in fact speeding up - approaching a
collision which will be hard not to interpret as tragic.
One more time, we don't need more cars, we need much more efficient public transit. Call your politicians and tell them it's curtains for them if they don't make better decision.
Is anybody taking the "recycle" and "recyclable" and "Please recycle" printed on cardboard to heart? I'm looking for a site or sites to compost cardboard and other organic wastes in larger amounts than is possible in those backyard composters that are popular. If you have a place, an idea, or would like to participate in any way, please get hold of me.
======
Jim McCue
St. Jim the Composter
412-421-6496
composter and biotech researcher
http://bioeverything.blogspot.com/2009/02/celebrate-earth.html
http://hazelwoodurbangardens.blogspot.com
http://facebook.com/alllifelover
http://plentyoffish.com/member498447.htm
http://hazelwoodhomepage.com
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