Steve Walker always tries to exercise caution when using Earth's resources.

(This is the first installment of a two-part blog.) Dear Fellow Earthlings, How do you protect nature? Let me sum up what I personally have done to protect it. To begin with, I do my best to limit my consumption of fossil fuels. When in Oregon, I keep the thermostat set low in my home and often shut the whole heat pump system down for hours on end -- and sometimes even for days and weeks on end. When driving my cars and my truck (all of which run on gasoline), I am careful about the routes I take and plan my various errands to minimize driving time and accumulation of mileage. I long for the day when I can have my cars converted to solar power sources... Yes, I do fly quite a lot. The fuel consumed by jetliners is not insignificant. I make it a point to fly as little as possible. But at present I confess that my carbon footprint is contributing to the global warming that is disrupting nature's balance.

As much as possible, I buy local produce, eat local meat, seek out local seafood. I try to eat in season. Also, I try to eat the most healthful foods that I can, for I know that medical costs (therapies, treatments, medications) are measured not only in money but also in the damage they wreak in the environment, with their preparations and procedures calling for all sorts of very unnatural plastics, energy expenditures, doses of radiation, and organic compounds that pollute the natural environment's soil, water, and air.

I produce my blogs in the hope of raising my fellow Earthlings' awareness about what we should do and should not do if we hope to save our Earth. Exchanging information is important. So I try to learn as much as I can about ways to communicate with more people and to gain as much knowledge and insight as I canso that my efforts to communicate with them are based on an increasing scope of both my knowledge and theirs.

It is so important to move toward effective measures to address the root causes of what is contributing to not only the destruction of our life forms but also of the myriad of ways of life (exemplified in the beleagurered languages that are disappearing at an alarming rate) that at one time were protected by a world that was not at all globalized.

This concludes the first part of this two-part installment. I ask you to wait until tomorrow for the second part. Steve Walker Earthsaver and Jingles Creator

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