<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div>Friends -<div><br></div><div>I'm on the verge of tears at the moment (and it's not about Bob - yippee!) - it looks like despite BP's claims about 5K barrels a day - the spill is probably between 40K to 120K barrels a day. That means on the conservative end of the spectrum we are dropping an Exxon Valdez oil spill into the Gulf EVERY THREE DAYS. Goodbye Caribbean?</div><div><br></div><div>As an Americans, this is all our faults. Though BP has been disgustingly horrible through this crisis they are just following the money and that money comes from you and me. </div><div><br></div><div>I'd like to ask you to do something that I try to do (and I know I have become a joke to some of you about this) - but when ever you try to take a trip in your car or in a plane or anywhere - please ask yourself - can I do this a better way?</div><div><br></div><div>I think flying is the hardest to escape - and I try to do that somewhat less than I would otherwise. But driving is an obvious target. When you are about to get in your car, ask yourself - can I walk, or take Muni, or BART - or bike! I don't mean to sound preachy - I'm on the hook here as well, and am a bit of a hypocrite myself* - but it is something I try to do - and I'm not perfect or even particularly good myself - but I'd like to ask us all to try and improve.</div><div><br></div><div>'deep</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>*I just looked into train tix for my potential upcoming flight to Minnesota - doesn't look like Amtrak goes there.<br><br><div><br></div><div>.ps</div><div>Tom passed along some good stuff:</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe we should do the Car Free Challenge - Sounds cool & we might even do well (they encourage everyone to do it - including us car free types)</div><div><a href="http://www.transformca.org/car-free-challenge/how-it-works">http://www.transformca.org/car-free-challenge/how-it-works</a></div><div><br></div><div>And another good one is the 10:10 Challenge out of the UK</div><div><div>They're working on getting folks to reduce their carbon emissions by 10% during 2010. The campaign focuses on different activities each month. The web sites have some good carbon footprint calculators, carbon reduction tips, and so on:</div><div><br></div><div>Official site: <a href="http://www.1010global.org/">http://www.1010global.org/</a></div><div>The Guardian's 10:10 site: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/10-10">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/10-10</a></div></div><div><br><div>
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