#58 feeling green

Don't get me started (too late)
A wired life means electricity but if we could just turn off so much could be saved. I did have my candles and a perfumed oil lamp ( was that green?) on earth day . Yet here I am blogging about going green while recharging my battery from electricity created from burning coal. (Such a hypocrite.) Without green electricity we cannot live this life and enjoy these toys and tools. I consider the biggest challenge for Australia the attempt to create a electricity from coal by utilising carbon sequestration it may take 10 to 15 years to be practicable if ever.Can we wait that long?
The little personal steps we take may make us feel good about our selves but change the worlds total global warming problem very little. However having said that let me say this(where have you heard that before)money talks and if we buy green products that utilised green IE: low energy inputs etc in production we could put some high energy/water user manufacturers out of business. Check out the Virtual kitchen. Even though a small nation in population terms we contribute greatly to pollution by selling coal to other countries. These other countries may not even utilise this new technology even if we can get it online.
Do we have a responsibility to leave it in the ground?(aka uranium) does the argument that they will source this raw material from other countries justify our role in the global warming mess . If you know the answer let me know
At least a few major initiatives have been started in Victoria with the worlds largest solar power station to be built in 2009
It will be interesting see if any brilliant new ideas come from the 2020 ideas summit.
But back to the library, I saw that hallmark are creating cards from recycled paper and sugar cane pulp.
Many books are printed now on recycled paper and are easier to read (less glare) Should we move to buying a pod for supplying print on demand only books and lending ebook readers for the economically disadvantaged.
As for Internet tools Google has created a search engine that only searches within green sites?(see side bar)