Letting off steam
I have to say that my environmental studies course, which I am taking as an elective of interest, is really paying off. Not only do I love the material (it's me), but I'm also exposed to many, how shall I say?, opportunities. Opportunities, especially, to get some fresh energy and ideas.
Today Japji invited her friend Jeremy Finkelstein in to talk about his his marketing group's publishing of a somewhat exclusive real estate magazine - Collections - that caters and advertises to the very affluent of Toronto. He's a marketer and journalist turned "green" and the issue he distributed for free in the class is replete with green design and articles written on "sustainability". It's really nice to see, over and above the ultra expensive "pretty, shiny things" (I owe that one to Marko). For some reason I feel this urge to get involved on a level that I have never thought possible. To be sure, I am aiming for environmental law, and in making great changes not only in my life but also in others. But reading this magazine makes such prospects much more exciting. It's amazing how far these issues have been coming in the last, well, since I became interested in environmental issues: about 2 years ago.
The feeling is akin to the feeling you get when you read or hear about something exiciting, and there is this urge to get in on the action, lest you are left out. I feel an enormous urge to take advantage of this slow but creeping change, and to seize the day (or the evening; which I'll be devoting to reading dry philosophy and doing a quick workout). There is just so much that I can do with this determination I have to save the planet (the pristene wilderness, in particular). Environmental law is my main goal, but I need something more. I need something that will do more than use the legal system to create change. I want to engage people in this, and celebrate in the growing awareness of these issues. I mean, this whole of the magazine that I was given is not only full of discussion on green design and such, but it also focuses on global warming and clean energy, THE most important issue of our time ( for our generation will be the first to go to war directly against the clock that past generations have wound up; the era of a conventional war for every generation is over).
Perhaps I'm a little high on the fact that the Republicans bit the dust last night, or that the Conservative government here in Canada's days are numbered (I am told) - as in a proposed no confidence vote in the spring. Perhaps I am just so cought up with wild optimism. But then again, this is the kind of thing that gets me pumped to actually do things. Time's are dangerous and exciting. And on that note I think I'm going to burn off some steam.