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Going Greeeeeeeen

I found several interesting sites on the Internet that encourage the society to get involved in protecting our world. In other words, get us excited about going green. This idea of going green, recycling, saving energy, etc, has been going around for quite some time. And I think people are trying out new ways to still promote it. I used to be really into going green (was in a green club and highly considered environmental engineering at one point), but I guess my excitement and idealism sort of wear off as time goes by. So, now I do care about depleting resources or the ever increasing pollution rate, but I dare not say I am an ardent enthusiast (well, I'm probably one or two levels below) :P

Anyways, let me just share with you those interesting sites that I found.

1. The Story of Stuff

It tells you where you things come from, who or what are exploited in order to produce your stuff, and what problems arise because of production of your stuff. The main attraction of the site is the 21 minutes video that explains all the above in an interesting presentation by Annie Leoward.
Annie is currently coordinator of the Funders Workgroup for Sustainable Production and Consumption . 21 minutes may sound long, but I actually hold on to the last minute thanks to the cute animations and the way Annie explains things. She lowers her language to suit us, the common people, yet respects us enough to throw in some jargons. Try watching the video, it's not a waste of time; a lot better than watching a random YouTube video.

2. Urban Renewal
A site that posts T-shirt re-designs by Mari, a recent graduate fine arts cultural studies program at York University at Toronto, Canada. It is her way of recycling old over sized plain T-shirts into stylish clothes. I wished I could be as creative and as crafty so that I can follow suit her way of recycling. For me, I'll just stick to sorting out paper and plastic trash to be thrown out to recycling bins, but for crafty people out there, go get some inspiration from her re-designs! They are amazing!

3. Re-generation

Just for fun, go to the site and enter in a sentence or two on what does green mean to you. Watch the answers of people from around the globe flashing on your upper screen. Once you've entered your answer, you can see your answer flashing, too!! And it'll be seen by those who visit the site. I got excited seeing my answer flashed, but then was a little bumped out cause it did not show up again eventhough I waited for some time. The site is sponsored by Dell, and I think it's run from Austin.

Let's do something green today!!!