Blog Action Day for the environment

yes, the girl who once said global warming was BS is creating a post in honor of environmental awareness. for those of you who had not heard, after viewing An Inconvenient Truth I retracted my previous BS comment and am now in the moderately concerned party that likes to keep aware of what's going on but has yet to participate in any specific action apart from recycling. While I doubt that I will go so far as to request that my cremated remains to be buried near my favorite tree so that I can become one with my personal tree, I was definitely concerned by the ridiculously hot weather during the first week or so of October and plan to deepen my awareness of what's going on environmentally as it comes up in the news. Check out Blog Action Day's website for more information on their awareness-raising.

and on a side note, crazy stat from last week - there are 54 doctors in the entire country of Liberia.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Land Rover adventures

Image
The new project manager owns this car: From Nairobi, take 2 which he purchased when he lived in Burundi and drove to Nairobi before he moved to Afghanistan. (Yes, it's a lot to keep track of). In any case, it's been hanging out at a friend's house the past few years, and he's made use of it whenever he's come to Nairobi on holiday. Yesterday in his search to find a house to rent during his tenure as my project's manager, he found a house he might like to buy. It's somewhere southwest of point B on the map below - i.e., very off road. View Larger Map He asked if I'd like to accompany him for a second visit, and I gladly accepted. This is the house next door to the one he might buy (and his inspiration for renovations): From Nairobi, take 2 and this is the view from there, complete with giraffe: From Nairobi, take 2 (can you see it?) So good to get out of the city for a bit. This was the view on the way back to the hotel: From Nairobi, take 2 Pretty clo...
Read more
The Kenya office has an office assistant named Derek who's job it is to bring us all tea or coffee when we arrive, and at an appointed time in the afternoon. I can't get used to it. He's a sweetheart, though.
Read more