It’s starts with “Reduce”
The phrase is “reduce, reuse, recycle.” But in what I see written about being green, people very often forget the reduce part. One exception is the folks at Grist. Reusing and recycling is all good, but don’t forget the reducing!
Have a Happy Reduced Earth Day!
Speaking of reduced, the strength in my hands is greatly reduced. I went climbing for the first time in 5 years. I won a free quarter pass for the climbing wall at UCSF! You can read about it yourself in the Synapse… but look for the photo of May Chu in which you will find a photo of me and my prize, not a photo of May Chu. So after climbing, I’ve had trouble picking things up, I could barely eat my noodle dinner with chopsticks, but fortunately, we didn’t lose our volleyball game with my reduced grip! We won! Thunder, thunder, Thunderforce, Hooooooo! My team is the most awesome team in the whole world!
On an unrelated note, David Cook on American Idol should have sung “Close Every Door” from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. It’s my favorite song from Andrew Lloyd Weber. That would have been amazing and perfect for him and it would have really placed him high above the rest of the contestants. Actually, maybe closing every door is reducing as well. And reducing the other contestants to be non-competitive is also reducing.
Let’s all reduce!
But don’t reduce how much you donate to good causes. Like Best Buddies! Shameless plug here… My sister is riding a bike for a really long time to raise money. If you want to help her out, you can go here.
Since it seems like it’s so easy to reduce, maybe the phrase should be “reduce, reuse, recycle, then reduce some more.”
My post might need to be reduced… I’ll make the next post shorter.
