Decision made vocal = action 28 August, 2007

Recently I had a nostalgic excursion to the university I studied at 10 years ago to attend a climate change workshop. It was difficult to understand why the rooms in the eco centre where the workshop was held were named after big mining companies (oh that’s right economics always wins in the end, boo); but easy to understand how people become active in something they are passionate about!

I was certainly motivated by meeting all these people who are doing so much in their local communities and committing themselves to action.

At the end of the day we broke into small groups and told the others the one environmental action that we would take as a result of the workshop. Consequently, today I finally joined the Green Office Program at work. Why not check out if you have such a thing in your workplace.

You know you’re getting old(er) when… 15 August, 2007

• catching a bus, you don’t automaticlly head straight for the back seat
• on a roller coaster, instead of enjoying it, you get scared wondering if the guy running it has an engineering degree
• kids tell you you’re from “the olden days” because you didn’t have a computer when you were young
• you think being out till midnight is a late one
• you’re tired at the end of the week and are looking forward to the weekend to recover; instead of being tired at the beginning of the week, recovering from the weekend
• you actually want to get up at 7am (to “get things done”) instead of sleeping in till 11am
• you can only eat 2 tim tams in one sitting instead of 6
• there is atually a time when you don’t feel like eating lollies or chocolate
• the thought of working on your feet all day at Coles and then clubbing till 2am is unbearable
• you realise that adults don’t know everything
• you realise you’re (supposed to be) an adult
• eating pizza, you crave beer instead of coke