Green Power

It's been a busy week, and I feel really drained. So I thought I'd write about energy. The title today will link with a site that will help you get green energy. In my case for a small premium I can get it through my regular power company. Locally it's 68% wind energy and 32% landfill gases. It won't cost a lot as my bills are already low -I switched out to florescent lighting about five years ago, and being hypothyroid has brought an air conditioning free summer for many years now.

I've thought about doing this before, but I wasn't as motivated to really do something more until the whole bio-fuel vs. food prices phenomenon recently made the connection between our energy waste and people starving around the world today.

I think this will go down better than my ill-fated attempt to bicycle to work a few years ago. That lasted two weeks (You have to commit to use green electricity for a year to sign up). I really enjoyed it, even though it was probably a wee bit dangerous, at night on a busy single lane state road with no bike path. The real problem though, was a different connection between fuel and hunger -I simply couldn't eat enough to keep up my weight.

So anyway, I'll be going down to the power company this week and switching over.

The following quote from a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi, dated December 8, 1947,

Our contributions to the Faith are the surest way of lifting once and for all time the burden of hunger and misery from mankind, for it is only through the system of Bahá'u'lláh -- Divine in origin -- that the world can be gotten on its feet and want, fear, hunger, war, etc. be eliminated.

makes me think along a parallel line, what have I been thinking about doing for the Faith that I haven't been "sufficiently" motivated to do? Hmh, food for thought.

-jeff