Thinking green.

I seem to need some kind of big research project or goal in order to function. Without something specific like this, I become bored. Of course, the biggest one of these in my life has been the umbrella of 'health' - including exercise prescription, diets of all sorts, weight loss, running, weight training, and so on. I am still interested in these things, of course (mainly vegetarian/pescetarian diets and what is best for long-term wellness), but I think that my focus is shifting somewhat. I'm becoming even more interested in two areas: green living and basic living skills. I want to feel more self-reliant. I want to feel as though I am making the best decisions (for our health and the environment) that we can afford to make. As I learn more about these things, I'll probably post items I feel strongly about (and maybe add a link section, seeing that book I am currently reading has tons of them).

I recently finished a book called The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, and it was kind of freaky. There are so many things that we are doing to screw up the environment, which I knew already, but it is disturbing to read all the statistics right there in one place. The title refers to the end of oil, which will be coming fairly soon and will undoubtedly change life as we currently know it. If you think about all the foods you eat, how they are produced, and where they come from, it is a little unnerving to imagine what will happen to you when much of that food is not being produced or transported around the world. Alternatively, we will start using fuels which are even worse than the oil now (more coal, more nuclear), and the environment will even more quickly go to hell. It is just bound to be a huge mess. I have to remind myself that this is still years away, and there is time to make changes - starting as soon as I get back home from Germany. ;)