What Can I Do? Humble Yourself Before Mother, Earth.

It took me a a fair amount of time with my own thoughts, friends, and a quick look outside for me to decide this was a course I decided would be incredibly important to take. It actually reminded me of high school when you are told you need to take Health & Fitness, and you sit there and think to yourself, "I'm healthy enough, I'm plenty active... I must be fit too." Then you get down to the "nitty gritty" information, and it turns out to be the kind of stuff (however awkward) that you carry with you for the rest of your life! Not only the ideas and practices you've been taught, but the ideas you've formulated on your own as well. Similarly, I pondered as I was seeking out coursework for my Associates in Business, all you hear about is the declining state of health in which our globe suffers. I thought, "What Can I do?" It is very true that "the Earth's regenerative capacity can no longer keep up with our demands... We're no longer living off the annual interest provided by the Earth's bounty... and eroding the planets natural capital," (Suzuki) and if we continue in this manner we've polluted the Earth past the point of recovery, so what can I do? What can any of us do...?

Through searching the Internet Machine a bit, I found a link that we could all spend 2 minutes on, as it is both helpful to our current issues and in laymen terms as it was created for children. http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?s=11247975&clienttype=printable
I do affirm following these little steps, in the early stages of a concerted effort to begin to change our lifestyles, we can in fact attempt more invasive ideas such as "cradle-to-cradle" and electric cars. We all need to humble ourselves a bit, for an easier transition to occur. As we all had to crawl before we could walk and if we can subscribe to the idea that maybe we can make a difference, we're already heading in the right direction. "The effect of one person bringing his or her own bag to the the supermarket may seem inconsequential in the global context, a tiny drop in the bucket. But if we all brought our own bags, the total impact would be enormous, in the same way that enough drops can fill a bucket." (Suzuki)