one for mother
paperless society, that is the future. to stretch it further more, cash-less society, where everyone has a ‘credit-score’ and with a touch of a finger, dna verfication or retinal scan, you can ‘buy’ whatever you want. i have been an advocate of saving mother earth to the point of obnoxious; stalking the office for people using dixie cups instead of the reusable porcelaine cups and castigating people who don’t print on both sides of the paper. i’m also an advocate of technology, to help save earth. i’ve been using onenote in taking notes during meetings and saving important bulletins, emailing instead of printing and reviewing documents online. all my meetings, my life, is a click away in outlook. my finances, bills, phone records, travel history is online, somewhere in a remote server. nuances i developed fueled by watching endless hours of documentaries in natgeo, al gore’s inspiring advocacy to the kyoto protocol and my innate love for the humpbacks.
but… i have, lately, grown to appreciate the importance of the organizer/journal. not the dear diary type, the one you use professionally. i’ve been lugging around my planner/journal in all my meetings, jotting down notes and putting in my calendar for the month, including my personal schedules. although outlook is a wonderful tool and it really helps you to organize your calendar, there is still something extra special when you scribble on a piece of paper. writing it down instead of typing makes it more important, more special. maybe it’s the human factor; it’s more personal, more relatable, that you see your notes and things to do in something more accessible and warm compared to a laptop or pda. and writing it on a paper helps me think. supposedly there’s no difference typing and writing it, but for some freaky reason i think more when i write it down. even in the middle of writing, i think and come up with something, it may not be a stroke of genius but you’ll never know.
it may look hypocritical, lobbying around to save mother earth while consuming paper equaling to a 20th of a full grown tree plus toxic dyes (ink). the least that i can do is to consciously choose recycled papers and non-toxic materials. and there are a lot of choices out there! recycling, specifically recycled paper, is so in right now. i hope it’s because we are becoming more environmentally conscious in how we live. but for whatever reasons, we are using these recyclables and we are helping to save mother earth. so no moleskin for me unless they make one using recycled paper.
visit http://wearewhatwedo.org to learn how you can do your share to help this piece of rock we call home. here, here for lesser carbon footprint! 
listening to:
Drive – Incubus : Drive
Tags: earth
March 18th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
We’ve got to be united to save earth! Earth Hour is practised at large scale in all developed and developing countries but there has been more publicity and awareness this year, as well as participation from large corporations like http://www.commit21.com/ which is a good sign – that there is still hope and that people still care!
Let’s all do this, no matter where you are! Saturday, 28 March 2009. Lights off from 8.30pm to 9.30pm!
March 19th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
this is very admirable. nice! =)
March 20th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
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