Trying to follow

A couple of months ago I noticed the newsletter that came with my electric bill was talking about “Green Power.” Since green is my favorite color (actually it’s blue) and I’m really into power (you know guns, SUVs and dictatorships) I decided to venture to their website and check out what this Green Power stuff was all about.
Basically TVA (Tennessee Vally Authority) was asking me to add another $4, $8, or $12 to my already uncomfortably high electricity bill (which they just raised again by the way). I must say I was a little skeptical. After all it was pretty clear my extra dollars weren’t gonna get them to come over and put solar panels on my apartment roof. So I did what any curious consumer would do, I called them.
The wonderful lady at TVA explained the Switch wonderfully. Basically, though wind and sunlight are free, the technology to capture energy from them is expensive. TVA and other companies aren’t willing to shell out the extra bucks if their consumers don’t seem to care one way or the other (leading us all to a global meltdown). So, the Green Power Switch is an opportunity for environmentally conscious energy patrons to put their money where their mouth is and start paying for Green Energy.
Here’s what happens when I pay an extra $12 bucks a month for my electricity. Currently, TVA buys energy from lots of places (They don’t just make it all themselves). My extra $12 will be used for TVA to buy Green Energy to add to the power mix. So, even though I’m not directly getting all that Green Energy, I’m paying for my share ($4 per 150 kilowatt-hours).

Now it’s your turn. If you live in Tennessee the Green Power Switch form is available online for you. If you live elsewhere in the country check out Green-E to see if your state has an alternative energy program you can sign up for.

So, the truth is I have not been too busy to write. Honestly I think letting myself go a day or two without writing got me out of the groove. I suddenly started thinking about what people would think about what I was writing, and if I was really a good enough writer to be doing this regularly.
I think I’m over it now.

But, excuse number to is this thing called Precondition Failed. Each time I mustered up the confidence to write I’d try to login and my own blog wouldn’t let me on cause it thought I was a robot (computer running through sites just to spam). I still can’t figure out why it did that.

Anyways, I was wondering if this happened to any of my regular readers as well? If so I’ll be sure to look into it. If not I’ll just go on about my business and start posting regularly again like I should have been all along.

For at least the next few days the Trying to Follow Hotline will be used at Overflowmag.com for folks to phone in their thoughts on the Soulforce activities at Wheaton College.
I’m not sure how successful it will be, but hopefully it is a useful tool.

If your interested in calling in with your thoughts please do at the hotline number:
(775-370-6924)

Earth Day is tomorrow and I don’t think enough people know or care about it. So I thought I’d drop a few pictures in that might inspire you a little.

(March 6) Greenpeace protests against bigger deforestation of the last years in the region of Santarém.

In a remote area of the forest, 120 km of Santarém, in Pará, inhabitants of communities in the region and Greenpeace had protested today against the deforestation. The group of 50 people travelled about 5 hours in precarious conditions arriving at an area of 1.650 hectares
totally devastated. There, the group opened a banner of 2.500 square meters with the message “100% Crime” and planted some trees. In accordance with the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Natural resources, this is the biggest deforestation of the region in last the seven years.  (via. Houtlust)

I wanted to encourage everyone to stop by overflowmag.com and read some some of the open letters to President Litfin. People have written in response to a email Litfin sent out to alumni asking for prayer for the coming soulforce event.

Please read and post your own thoughts!

http://overflowmag.com/81