possibilities
On a recent trip to Ilocos Norte my friends and I went to see the windmills at Bangui. We saw them from the car window on the Coastal Highway to Pagudpud, we could see them from our resort across the bay, and we finally saw them up close and in the flesh. There were about fifteen or so towering ivory monoliths perched on a rocky beach. When you're standing in the shade of one, you can hear it whistling as its rotor blades turned in the breeze. They just stood there, gallantly jutting upward into the sky. They didn't look out of place, they didn't seem like they were intruding on the landscape, it seemed like a beautifully unnatural-yet-natural thing, like silky three-petaled flowers growing on barren land.
I don't know if it's the windmills, Al Gore, the Pope or the Discovery Channel in my head or a mixture of everything, but I realized recently that I want my the rest of my life to be about saving the world's natural environment, or be completely involved in green projects that positively contribute to the improvement of the global environmental crises.
I want to leave behind a beautiful place for my children and my grandchildren to live in. I want them to be able to open a window and breathe in clean air, to have summers and get to lay on sandy beaches without worrying about skin cancer, to not have to worry about paying 100 pesos for a litre of gasoline for a car that will destroy their planet even more. I want them to be able to enjoy the world and not just exist in it.
Our tourguide told us that the entire town of Bangui draws its electricity from wind and hydro power. I'm pretty sure that Bangui isn't the only town in this country that does that. Isn't that amazing? We are actually in the age when clean, reusable energy is NOT an experiment. Now we need a government or major leadership that will work to make this a reality for everyone.
I don't know if it's the windmills, Al Gore, the Pope or the Discovery Channel in my head or a mixture of everything, but I realized recently that I want my the rest of my life to be about saving the world's natural environment, or be completely involved in green projects that positively contribute to the improvement of the global environmental crises.
I want to leave behind a beautiful place for my children and my grandchildren to live in. I want them to be able to open a window and breathe in clean air, to have summers and get to lay on sandy beaches without worrying about skin cancer, to not have to worry about paying 100 pesos for a litre of gasoline for a car that will destroy their planet even more. I want them to be able to enjoy the world and not just exist in it.
Our tourguide told us that the entire town of Bangui draws its electricity from wind and hydro power. I'm pretty sure that Bangui isn't the only town in this country that does that. Isn't that amazing? We are actually in the age when clean, reusable energy is NOT an experiment. Now we need a government or major leadership that will work to make this a reality for everyone.