M.I.A.

Okay, so I've been MIA lately. Well, at least not updating my blog. I do apologize for leaving you for weeks without updating you on my new found environmental knowledge... lol

Well, since I last made a post, I've...

• ...judged a pageant.
• ...acted in a movie.
• ...worked three-days before [the stage play].
• ...acted in a stage play.
• ...worked another three days after [the stage play].
• ...attended a class.

In other words, I don't rest. I did get a chance to watch some shows on PBS.org that helped me further my environmental knowledge and gain more insight into how our bad habits effect the ecosystem.

The quote on the header of my blog is so true. All things ARE connected my friends. For example, where do you think those harsh chemicals that we use everyday are going? They come right back to us through our water from our personal care products to the chemicals in our cleaning products. All of this waste water filters right back to us or contaminates our watersheds, which too eventually gets back to us.

In our waste water:

• New products that include new chemicals are outpacing our filtration systems. Our filtration systems have the capability to filter foreseeable chemicals; however, they cannot filter the chemicals they don't yet know how to counter; these are the same chemicals that cause sickness in our marine life.

In our rain runoff:

• Where do I begin with this one? Just imagine consuming a bottle of fertilizer. Essentially, we are poisoning ourselves by poisoning our waters. We are losing fish, crabs and are unknowingly potentially causing sickness to ourselves when we consume seafood from the waters we contaminate.

You all know I don't like to preach, but I just want to emphasize that the world is our home. I always use the analogy of someone coming into your home and dropping trash where ever they are, spilling anything anywhere, drinking all of your water, bashing in your walls, and for non-smokers, filling your home with smoke. All of this is the equivalent of the damage that we are doing to OUR environment: the system that makes life and some luxuries possible for us.

I hope that you can come away with some insight from this post. To learn more about nature and our environment, you can watch some useful videos at PBS.org.

Regards,
Tia

P.S. Being a vegetarian feels great! (More on that later.)