Puce Green

So I just watched "The Day The Earth Stood Still" with the wonderful Keanu Reeves, well not really WITH him, I watched it with my son, and Mister Reeves graciously starred in the film as an alien on a mission.

How did this movie not send the world running for a compost bin, banning oil fueled vehicles for good, and making fabric shopping bags mandatory?

*Spoiler alert-in the next paragraph I'm going to tell you enough about the movie that you will probably not be sitting on the edge of your seat if you watch it yourself*

In a nutshell, the movie depicts Keanu as an alien sent to earth from a sister planet to save the earth from human destruction; the only way he can do this is to remove all human life. As human beings are faced with imminent eviction they beg to be given a final chance to change their ways and make amends. Interesting how when on the brink of disaster human nature is to eventually...change.

So terrified was I by the prospect of an alien intervention (although if they all arrive in Keanu Reeves like bodies it might be one heck of a way to go) that I removed all unused plugs from their sockets, put everything on a power strip, researched composting, and vowed to make "plastic" a naughty word in my house.

I already drive a fuel efficient vehicle and watch the lights and stuff but I'm also going to put a bucket in my shower (They do this down under in the land of Oz and use the water on the garden instead of letting it run down the plughole) and start composting.

Composting has come a long way, it's no longer a stinky heap of rotting leftovers at the end of the garden, there's now a far less pongy and quite attractive method available in most hardware stores.

So why am I blogging about this? Because I want us to start talking about this and holding each other accountable ...just in case the aliens come!

If, like me, you'd like to do a little bit more to avoid your children and grand-children being raised in outer space by little green men (hmm, wonder why they're green?) visit some of these sites and get some green action of your own!

www.groovygreen.com

www.earth911.com

www.paystolivegreen.com

http://green.yhoo.com