Here Goes

Today I sent out an email to about 15 of my friends to see what they think about starting this group "10 do 10."

The idea is inspired by the checklist on www.stopglobalwarming.org
for how to take action against massive and catastrophic climate change, and I wrote my friends to see if they were interested and/or had ideas/resources to share.

Basically I was thinking about it the other day and I realized that I have known about various small lifestyle changes I could make to help save energy and reduce carbon emissions, but for whatever reason, I have not gotten around to actually DOING very many of them. Simple things like replacing the light bulbs in the house with compact fluorescents, checking the hot water heater and making sure that it is set at 120 degrees, unplugging unused appliances, etc. --shame on me, but I imagine that there are a number of semi-lazy-ish (or rather, let's call them very busy) people out there who are very concerned about global warming but who have yet to actually make all the possible concrete changes in their lives. This idea is designed to facilitate:

Its a simple little thing really--10 people join an "Energy Pod," facilitated by what I am calling a "Pod-Leader", and all of them agree to do what they can to make small lifestyle tweaks that will help combat global warming. The Pod Leader, through non-annoying email messages, friendly, non-nagging phone calls, high-tech blog postings, raffles, etc (raffles?) then helps everyone follow through on their commitment. And by sharing with each other the changes that pod members are making, hopefully everyone will start to have a real sense of what can be accomplished by small groups. Perhaps, Pod Members will be inspired to become Pod Leaders, and, just like Amway, we start to rule the world.

(For the list offered by the stop global warming website of possible lifestyle adjustments--click

here

For now I am just beginning to think about the best way to organize--I think that the simpler the better--but it would be nice to have a website where others could join the movement if they'd like. Don't you reckon?

Anyway, so here is the blog about the beginnings of this project. I'll post people's comments/ideas/issues and we'll see what happens.

--sL