Global War(n)ing?
by Texas Panhandle has no sense of being “green”.
I live in the middle of the country. In the Texas panhandle. This year has been pretty odd in the sense we had really cold weather in October, but now have 70 degree days in December? In the past 11 years that I have resided here, it has come to my attention that every year, snow doesn’t accumulate as much because of certain environmental aspects.
Society has just recently begun to make efforts to make the environment “greener” by producing cars with less pollution, better gas mileage, reliable energy sources. However this doesn’t seem to be helping in the area where I live. There have been few efforts to promote “greener” ideas to our community(ies). Of those few ideas, wind energy has been the most prominent and successful considering we have an endless supply of it. However, I intend to expand the effort by writing this and hopefully help promote change in our selfish and careless lifestyles.
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Post CommentJohn Borden
On December 14, 2008 at 5:54 pm
God, ain’t that the truth.
If you were to compare Amarillo to a city of equal size in an area with a greater appreciation and concern for the local ecosystem, you’d find that these areas have a lot more parks, community gardens, and an infrastructure that promotes walking and biking rather than riding around in a automotive cocoon. These are the things that make ecologically responsible communities.
Unfortunately, this will never happen until we get some people in power who are responsive to such ideas.
But if someone could at least just take some worthless lot, and make a community garden out there where anyone could grow food on otherwise unavailable land, well that would be the start of something far bigger than this talk of wind turbines.
Daisy Almaguer
On December 15, 2008 at 2:25 am
Straight up John, I’ve always wanted to make this place more aware of how bad our habits are. But everytime I do people just look at me like i’m crazy.
Ronnie Kimbrell
On December 16, 2008 at 9:00 am
Certainly too late for most people but several people I know are going to a public forum at City Hall in the city commissioners chambers on the third floor at 1 p.m. to make them aware of the need for more recycling in Amarillo.
Daisy Almaguer
On December 17, 2008 at 1:36 am
Yes I have heard about that, but what date?