Quien hubiera pensado?

que ser ambientalista se fuera a convertir en un símbulo de estatus ético/social?

(we were only holding the signs)
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Prince Charles becomes carbon neutral
By JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press Writer Tue Jun 26, 11:29 AM ET
LONDON - Fewer chartered planes, more train trips and a royal Jaguar that runs on cooking oil have helped Prince Charles achieve a carbon-neutral household, an annual review of the prince's accounts said Tuesday.

The annual review by the prince's Clarence House office said Charles cut his annual carbon emissions by 9 percent, to 3,775 tons, between April 1, 2006 and March 31 of this year. The prince offset those emissions by investing in an agency that promotes tree planting and sustainable energy projects.

The review said the prince's households — the Highgrove estate in western England, where he farms organically, as well as Clarence House in London and Birkhall in Scotland — and the activities of Charles and his wife Camilla were now carbon neutral.

The report — printed on recycled paper in vegetable-based ink — said the prince had reduced the number of plane and helicopter journeys he takes, introduced green electricity at Highgrove, and converted his Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles to run on biodiesel fuel from used cooking oil.

Plans also are being discussed to convert the royal train to biodiesel fuel, said the prince's principal private secretary, Sir Michael Peat.

Charles was criticized earlier this year for flying to New York to accept an environmental award — one of 86 overseas trips the prince took in the past year. But Peat said the prince used carbon offsetting — funding the planting of trees or other activities that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere — to balance the effects of his air travel.

The total cost of offsetting the prince's carbon emissions for one year was about $60,000, the review said.

"We continue to look at the most effective, appropriate way in which to offset," Peat said. "I'm sure we'll develop and revise the way we offset as we go on. But we're doing it the best way we can at the moment."

Environmental group Friends of the Earth praised the carbon-cutting prince.

"The fact that he reduced his carbon emissions by 9 percent in the last year alone highlights the potential for making rapid cuts in the nation's contribution to climate change," director Tony Juniper said.

Saber escojer enemigos

No es bueno hacerse de enemigos
que no esten a la altura del conflicto
que piensan que hacen una guerra
y se hacen piss encima como niños
-FIto Paez

children of men

Hace poco ví esta película. Me gustó mucho. Tengo que admitir que tengo una afición por historias post-apocalípticas y distopias... creo que son el género más realista del siglo 21.

La película pinta un futuro que no es muy diferente al presente... quizas es sólo una exageración del presente.

Me gustaría tener más tiempo y habilidad para escribir una buena reseña pero...

me parece interesante ser parte de una generación que tiene que lidiar con saber que alomejor somos la última. o penultima o antepenultima... en fin... es dificil tener una visión optimista para las siguientes generaciones.

saber que las tradiciones que hemos heredado nos han llevado al borde de la catastrofe nos hace cuestionar. y, el problema esta en saber distinguir qué de esas tradiciones o cuáles son las que nos han hecho esto. Pero, definitivamente hoy no se puede tomar una actitud de seguir una tradicion a ciegas. Quizas eso fue lo que nos trajo a donde estamos. O quizas fue la actitud de desechar todo lo que huela a tradicion sin pensar en las consecuencias.

Wishful thinking?

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are we not to be? You are a child of god. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of god that is within us. It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone. And as we let our own life shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fears, our presence automatically liberates others.” – Caroline Myss