bright day

YESTERDAY,  we slept first time in our apartment the two housemates, me and B. I will call her Beanny, to protect her anonymity.:) It was really nice. She cooked rice in an indian way : she sauted  cumin with bay leaves and onion and it smelled like roasted meat! Then she added the rice and green peas and tomatos and potatoes cut in pieces and after 20 minutes we ate. It was really yummy!
MY housemate is vegetarian, that's so cool. I am trying to be one too.OR at least a flexitarian. That is, you eat meat only when you really really want it or you feel you need it :) I want to become a vegetarian not because I want to mimic my housemate but for a number of reasons.
1.they say it's healthier. Mediterrenean diet is also not based on meat (especially on red meat).
2. it's good for the environment. If you see cows as machines, during all their lives, they burn tonnes of cereal and green stuff and water to produce milk and only some dozens kilos of meat per animal and also some artifacts, e.g. sheet, methane.That's not efficient in terms of energy, water and natural resources in general. (Plus, methane is partly responsible for ozon hole!)
 Moreover, I am buying mainly organic stuff from the supermarket. It's a little more expensive but now I am used to it. Again for the same reasons :
1.they say it's healthier.
2. it's good for the environment.organic stuff keep part of the earth clean from pesticides and other nasty chemicals.

 

                                                        goodnight sweetie...:)

 

Slavoi Zizek talks about ecology

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGCfiv1xtoU&feature=player_embedded

Plastic Bags r.i.p

I woke up today at 9pm. I got dressed and rush to the bus station because I had to meet a friend to arrange some insurance stuff! Actually we needed the European health card because we are travelling abroad in a couple of weeks.In our way, we found a bakery and bought something to eat. I usually try not to eat out. But most of the times I can't resist to a nicely baked croissant! Bakeries and morning are my favourite place and time to eat out .:) So I got my croissant and a juice and in 10 minutes I was done.
And then I saw the plastic bag carrying the juice and the croissant, the plastic bottle of the juice, and the little sachet containg the croissant. And I thought that I should throw away all these stuff, that were made in a factory and waited patiently long time on the shelf of this bakery to be used for their 10 minutes of publicity and then thrown away!Energy that spent for the 10 minutes of my devour!

I think that there is no creature on this planet that has only ten minutes of life!I have once heard about an insect that is born,breed and die in one day. And maybe there are also some bacterias with life expectancy a couple of hours. That happens because Nature is wise. An amount of energy is spent for every new creature, to be born, grow up and fulfill its purpose. Each creature on earth has a Purpose. Darwin says this purpose is to breed well and protect your offsprings.And then the creature dies and becomes one with the earth, soil.

People on the other hand, are dump. We create things without being able to manage their disposal. These things usually take a hundert or more years to become one with the earth. During their production, nature is destroyed and life cycles are disturbed. We call them trash when we don't need them anymore even before they lose their attributes and their usability. We show absolutely no respect for things if they are old-fashioned or not technologically updated. The volume of the trash increases constantly, poisons water and ecosystems and threatens even human life.
But yes, I know, we can always recycle.:) Recycling helps our creations to have a second life (most of the times in a lower caste) by spending some more energy on them. That's a solution. The problem is first, that in Greece we think that this solution is optional. Second, we need to pay a second thought before kill something that can be used a second and a third time. Like the plastic bag that contained the little sachet with my croissant and the juice bottle. I will carry it back home but I'm afraid that there will be one last use for it ; to carry the trash to the trash bin.:(