We make choices every moment. It becomes our basis for empowerment. When viewing the above photograph, it's obvious that someone made a choice. A barrel for discards stood inches away.
If each person took responsibility for his or her air space and discards, a clean world would flow around us. Instead, a cigarette butte here, facial tissue or toothpick there and soon the landscape takes on a cluttered appearance.People ignore trash on the street rather than picking it up and tossing it into a container. Why?
I observed a mother stop her car and let her son out. He approached a man putting trash into a bush and said in a polite tone, "Sir you dropped this." Why do we need to remind one another?
The Story of Stuff - www.storyofstuff.com/index - reveals the process of goods production through utilization and disposal. We need to take a long look at our individual impact in this system. We're all a part of the Web of Life and have a responsibility.
Creative Write: Write a Letter to the Editor with a solution to enlighten others about our disposable economy.
If each person took responsibility for his or her air space and discards, a clean world would flow around us. Instead, a cigarette butte here, facial tissue or toothpick there and soon the landscape takes on a cluttered appearance.People ignore trash on the street rather than picking it up and tossing it into a container. Why?
I observed a mother stop her car and let her son out. He approached a man putting trash into a bush and said in a polite tone, "Sir you dropped this." Why do we need to remind one another?
The Story of Stuff - www.storyofstuff.com/index - reveals the process of goods production through utilization and disposal. We need to take a long look at our individual impact in this system. We're all a part of the Web of Life and have a responsibility.
Creative Write: Write a Letter to the Editor with a solution to enlighten others about our disposable economy.
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