35 Things You Can Do For My Birthday
Dave Stewart - September 07, 2006
I'm celebrating my birthday in conjunction with the 35th Anniversary of Greenpeace. Here are 35 thing you can do for me:
• Believe in Global Warming. It is real.
• Drive a hybrid.
• Swear off plastic bags. They are rampant in our oceans and wildlife feeds off them, thinking they are plankton. Bring your own bags to the supermarket and visit oceans.greenpeace.org for more on how to Defend our Oceans.
• Support renewable energy. Install solar panels on your house.
• Bring your family to visit our newest and fastest ship, the Esperanza, when it makes a stop in San Diego in November.
• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
• Write about environmental issues.
• Place environmental messages in your lyrics.
• Use musical instruments made of wood approved by the Forest Stewardship Council. For more info, visit www.musicwood.org.
• Support wind farms, even when they interfere with your view.
• Learn to drive a Greenpeace Zodiac.
• Provide bail money for a Greenpeace action.
• Participate in a peaceful direct action with Greenpeace.
• Eat organic foods. Support farmers’ markets.
• Restrict your fish consumption: fish may be good for you, but not when it contains mercury. And overfishing is perhaps the single biggest, most immediate threat facing the world’s ocean. If in doubt about what to eat from the sea, check out www.seafoodchoices.org for a list of “safe” fish, retailers and restaurants.
• Don’t use anti-bacterial soap: the chemicals they contain wind up in wastewater and ultimately in the environment-and anyway, studies suggest they’re probably no more effective at combating germs than normal soap and water.
• Participate in a beach clean up.
• Conserve energy.
• Conserve water.
• Don’t litter, and confront those who do.
• Stay away from genetically engineered foods.
• Help build a PVC-free Habitat for Humanity House.
• Avoid farmed fish. Huge amounts of fish are caught to feed aquaculture species, and fish farms can cause severe damage to coastal environments.
• Use energy efficient lightbulbs.
• Turn those lights off when you’re not using them.
• See “An Inconvenient Truth.” Tell a friend or a family member to see it too. And have them tell another friend…
• Take your own coffee cup to be filled up at your own local coffee shop.
• Print on both sides of paper.
• Dispose of computers and other electronic products responsibly. Every year, hundreds of thousands of old computers and cell phones are dumped in landfills or burned in smelters. Thousands more are exported, often illegally, to Asia, where workers at scrap yards, often children, are exposed to a cocktail of toxic chemicals and poisons.
• Don’t run the dishwasher until it is full.
• Speak out against wars of any kind.
• Stay informed except when you can’t take it any more. Then, take a short break and get back to it.
• Support Greenpeace, one of my favorite organizations. Operating in over 30 countries worldwide, they’re active day in, day out where it counts: on the front lines to protect the planet.
• Listen to my song to celebrate Greenpeace’s 35th Anniversary -- I will post it when it is ready.
• Wish me a Happy Birthday!
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Posted by Dave Stewart at September 7, 2006 10:51 AM
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Thanks for this Dave!
...and Happy Birthday!
Abu-Issa
Birthday Card, for you Dave : )
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Have a great Birthday.. hugs to Annie and lotsa kudo's to those on the front lines....
big hey and ups to NadirahX..
North
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North
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September 7, 2006 10:38 AM
Dear Dave
Happy Birthday! I wish I were 35 again!
The list of 35 pro-active ways to help build a better world is very welcome, although one must confess that my family and I may not be able to do so many of them to begin with...
Excellent initiative!
DK
DK Matai
The Philanthropia, ATCA, mi2g.net
Dave,
You have taken the word alternative to new levels! You go brother!
peace
Happy Birthday, Dave!
Thanks for sharing these things that are so important to you.
I promise to take at least one of the things on your birthday list that I haven't done or do not normally do and encorporate it into my life.
Love, Kristin
6. Posted by
Kristin Masterton
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September 7, 2006 12:51 PM
"Happy birthday" Dave.You Rock......
Indrakaran.
7. Posted by
indrakaran
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September 7, 2006 01:54 PM
Happy Birthday Dave! You got it - I'm already doing most of what you asked.
Best wishes, M:)
8. Posted by
MarthaD
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September 7, 2006 03:33 PM
Dear Dave,
Happy Birthday.
I am already committed to 20 of those items. But I promise I'll work on the remaining list(although some of those things are not too easy to implement).
Best wishes,
Donatella
9. Posted by
Donatella
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September 7, 2006 05:07 PM
Happy Birthday!! Great list!
I just might copy/paste it onto my blog later (giving you full credit of course) to spread the word onto my own friends! Hope you have a beautiful day!
Love,
Ameya
Happy Birthday, Dave!!
11. Posted by
Sheba/Jodi
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September 7, 2006 06:09 PM
Congrats and good day!
12. Posted by
maria luisa
on
September 7, 2006 06:10 PM
Happy Birthday Dave!
Thank you for sharing, a prayer for your list to manifest to a reality for most of this world.
I will print out your list and post it in my work place and ask the same of my husband.
Blessing be...to thee,
Cinda
13. Posted by
Cinda
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September 7, 2006 07:40 PM
Dave, HAPPY BIRTHDAY. Thank you for the list. Thank you for reminding us to be Green Consumers. God bless you.
14. Posted by
geetajayaram
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September 7, 2006 08:48 PM
#36
If you don't follow these things, we Vill recycle you!
Happy 35th!
or else
15. Posted by
Ambasteve
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September 7, 2006 08:54 PM
A very very happy birthday...
I run my diswasher on alternate days...I recycle and reuse mostly what i can.
I choose to live in a small house because i donot want to leave a humongous footprint on this planet.I shop at farmers market....I still need to buy hybrid but it is very expensive...cannot afford it.
16. Posted by
Andaleeb
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September 7, 2006 09:48 PM
"Global warming can mean colder, it can mean drier, it can mean wetter, that's what we're dealing with."
Steven Guilbeault, Greenpeace
Now I don't know where to get more air-conditioning or a heater!
17. Posted by
Ambasteve
on
September 7, 2006 09:49 PM
Excellent way of celebrating by sharing the above on your birthday!
Dave, Happy Birthday.. have a good one.
Shruti.
Happy B-day Dave: In order to deprogram the aging mechanisms in our deep-seated belief stuctures as they relate to celebrating birthdays.....well, you are hereby ordered to install a reverse pattern of acknowledged age into all your birthday celebrations from here on out!
Soooo.....this is a "conditional," vs. unconditional birthday wish for greater things to come for you--should you choose to accept this mission......
.....well, then I'll continue to focus on, thereby expanding the habits thereof, as they are included in your fabulous list (am actually accomplishing some of the transitions anyway--but don't tell "my past" that I'm changing--or it will come back to haunt me back into submission as the glutton I was!).
It is clearly proven by the experience of our very lives that what we focus on continuously on the inner screen of our minds, our "inner dialogue," so to speak, is exactly what will meticulously reproduce itself in our outer worlds--in other words, the mechanics of manifestation are constantly revealing to us exactly what we truly do believe "deep down" inside--in spite of our wishful and superficial thinking to the contrary!
This amounts to increasing my own personal focus on both your list, and the "higher self" list that Deepak recently posted: again, "what you focus on is what expands"---and what an increasingly wonderful world I will see and experience as I do--it is all very "Self-ish" really, n'est pas?!
My best to you "old man," even though you are younger than me! (nice name, by the way)--Sincerely, Dave
19. Posted by
David
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September 8, 2006 03:26 AM
Happy Birthday, 21 again!
There is a company who have developed a technogy that produces free, clean and constant energy.
See www.steorn.net
Now that would be cool.
Mary
20. Posted by
Mary
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September 8, 2006 11:14 AM
Dave, happy birthday and thank you and Greenpeace for your work!
Mary, thanks for the link, this might just be it. It has to happen somewhere :)
21. Posted by
Aurora Carlson
on
September 9, 2006 05:07 AM
Dave,
First off, I think you have way too little posts,
seccond, man, you have, heck of a birthday wish(-es)!, before blowing out the candles,
Honestly, I'm down with that intent(s) of yours,
Greenpeace, love, it, chain me down to a tree,
that stunts you pull with that blow-up boats,
and oil tankers, damn! you got some..imagination,
guts!, good thinking, go beyond!, all..! Deepak would, archetypes, and such, I think,
but the thing is, it really depends on the
peer, group, sociaty, and organisation of, use (or mis-use) of resources,
anyhow,
I don't know if you've ever been to Poland,
but if there's a celebration, or good cause,
we have a bottle,
a song,
that's abundance,
or maybe,
just,
Love, Passion! hope you've had a great one,
that law of giving, that's universal, causality,
may be an, awarness, or Karma thing, but maybe that's..;)
Na Zdrowie!
22. Posted by
marek dariusz podsiadlo
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September 9, 2006 05:21 PM
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Dear Dave, HaPpy BiRtHdAy!! I will certainly be going down the list, and doing as many as I can, in conjunction with your b.day and your efforts to bring these issues to light... all the best, you really ARE adorable...
North