Before I start- whew- it’s a good thing I didn’t get that iphone. I read today that it’s not working for women with nails because the touchscreen isn’t sensitive to nail pressure, it has to be an electromagnetic fingertip. Not that I have nails right now, but not being able to have them due to my fancy i-phone would suck. I’ll keep my blackberry, thank you.
About my green husband. He wasn’t like this when I married him, I swear. Not that I’m complaining or anything, It’s all quite smart.
He is plotting right now to alter our lawnmower engine to run on water. He’s watched the video on creating a fuel cell a thousand times. He’s done little experiments in the kitchen with water, batteries, metals, electrometers and other boy things. Once he masters the technique, he’s going to do the car. His goal is to get our house “off the grid.” He’s used that term like ten thousand times today.
We just saw the movie “The 11th hour.” I thought it would be all depressing, so I didn’t want to watch it, I just sat there in his office with my laptop working on my new website a top secret project. It was quite uplifting, though. Instead of feeling like “OMG we can never stop this stupid global warming thing let’s just suck it up and relax.” Which is my normal reaction to uncomfortable suggestions that we all go live in a cave and eat berries be environmentally aware; I watched the movie and felt quite empowered afterward. Not just because Leonardo DiCaprio is so sexy (Rose, I’ll never forget you…) but because the movie really helped me understand that it is possible to heal what industrialized life has done to the earth. I didn’t feel hopeless, it was empowering. whatever. watch it and you’ll know what I”m saying this is getting boring all this examining my emotions- sorry dudes.
I don’t buy the whole overpopulated business. I didn’t know the world’s population has doubled since like Kennedy or someone was in office. I really think the earth can support all these people if we just make LESS of an impact.
Luckily my cheap-ass lifestyle is fairly low impact. I cook from scratch, not a lot of extra packaging or factory emissions from our food (that’s 8 people eating green). I don’t buy local as often as I can, but I smile at the pregnant ladies and the vendors at the farmer’s market, that’s gotta help. We use cloth diapers. I hung stuff out to dry a while back. I drink plenty of water, even though it’s toxic. Sometimes, I walk to the store instead of driving. My kid splay with real potatoes instead of plastic ones. And I am sure that homebirth might have less of an environmental impact, aside from being such a fun way to spend the weekend.
Anyway- so Mr Green wants to form some kind of commune where nobody has to work, you just do what you want. Some people like to cook, so they can feed him. He’s going to take up fishing, in case people want to eat fish (he doesn’t like fish, but he likes the idea of sitting on a boat on the lake all day) If someone wants him to build faux finish walls (stone, brick…) he’ll do that, too and build things. If he feels like it. You have to apply, because we can’t just have a village full of toilet scrubbers (but we do need at least one) And this just cracks the surface of the degree of flipped he’s at. I love him dearly, and this is all very entertaining but somehow I always get stuck with the paperwork. I think I’d rather be the toilet scrubber.
I just wonder, instead of house-hunting on the west side, should I look in like Montana or something?
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Just so you know, my husband has already done that hydrolyzer thing to his pickup truck. It doesn’t totally run on water but is supposed to significantly increase gas mileage. Also, can we join your commune?
Comment by Mrs. Pevensie — June 24, 2008 @ 4:59 pm
We’d join your commune. David would probably still work–he’s like that–but the kids and I coud garden or whatever. I have a degree in developmental Psychology, so I could tell people how to raise their kids–oh, wait, I already do that. :-0
Comment by Emily the Great and Terrible — June 26, 2008 @ 2:38 pm
We’d join your commune. David would probably still work–he’s like that–but the kids and I coud garden or whatever. I have a degree in developmental Psychology, so I could tell people how to raise their kids–oh, wait, I already do that. :-0
Comment by Emily the Great and Terrible — June 26, 2008 @ 2:38 pm