It is officially one week until we head out to San Francisco! We will be doing a bit of a pre-tour trip to enjoy the sites around San Francisco and area before we head north on "Get out the Grease".
We have so far raised close to $800 and are getting closer with every donation to our goal. Any donation can make a difference.
Efforts to stop oil flowing continue. As of last Friday BP managed to put a cap on to stop the oil flowing. Check out this site for more information: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/7900558/Oil-spill-BP-mulls-using-mud-to-block-Gulf-of-Mexico-oil-well.html. It would be awesome to finally stop the oil flowing into the Gulf however there is still lots of damage to take care of.
I read a blog post on the Greater New Orleans Foundation today that was posted on July 16th: http://www.gnof.org/blog/bird-rescue-in-buras/ and one comment made by Mark Russell who has been working with oil spill bird rescues for 20 years said that there is always an oil spill somewhere but you cannot always respond to it. It is crazy to think that our planet is under such stress just so we can use oil. It really makes you think and not to say that we should all not use or buy oil products (it would be nice in a perfect world) but it just really makes you think about what is going on if spills are happening all the time without people taking action.
Even in Canada things go unnoticed, for instance, in northern Ontario I (Daun) remember communities not even having recycling programs (this was eight years ago so this may have changed by now). I could not believe that part of the country (i.e. Halifax and PEI) had really awesome municipal composting programs/recycling and other communities had no program in place to recycle even paper.
I definitely don't have the answers and it appears sometimes that the leaders of the world don't either but I guess on an individual level you have to take it one step at a time or you will probably drive yourself actually crazy.
For Lisa and I our one step at a time is more of one pedal at a time and we hope that the fundraising will help... so here we come San Francisco!
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