Willing To Fight-Ani Difranco

...watched a very moving documentary called "11th Hour" tonight...i can't begin to go into what i learned...but i can describe the feelings i was left with...that there is always hope for the hopeless...yes this current system of big corporations and waste and consumption needs to change and be re-designed, but there are people already effecting such change...buildings with green roofs are popping up all over the place...my own father who is a staunch christian and republican recycles cans and my mother reuses water and soda bottles for drinking water for her sports teams and long trips...what i walked away from this movie with was a sense that it may be the 11th hour, but we still have an hour...without being preachy or starting a dialogue about politics or religion, it would behoove us as a nation and people to find one way that we can do something good for the place we live...the place that gives us life...our home...would you invite a toxin to stay in your guest room?...and one point that someone made in "11th Hour" was we vote either for change or sameness each time we make a purchase...in a money driven culture...that is the purest way that we can effect change...one person suggested that we make it so rewarding and enticing to encourage someone to invent the perfect way to best big oil...and so impossible for big oil to make money that in the end the transition would be seamless...i struggle every day with this...i am too american, too lazy to actually walk or ride a bike to work...i am part of the problem essentially whining about the possibility of a solution...if i had my druthers i would buy and drive and be very proud to do so...a smart car...but again i live here now...i will continue to search my soul for the answer...hopefully we all find the answer in time...