{"id":64,"date":"2007-10-16T18:35:02","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T15:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.veni.com\/?p=64"},"modified":"2007-10-16T18:35:02","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T15:35:02","slug":"an-inconvinient-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"An Inconvinient Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(first published on May 25, 2006, but decided it&#8217;s good to bring it to the front, as Al Gore just won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work)<\/p>\n<p>A group of people &#8211; 40 altogether &#8211; we went to see the movie &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.landmarktheatres.com\/Films\/films_frameset.asp?id=52989\">An Inconvinient Truth<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>I highly recommend it, regardless of the fact that Al Gore is in the main role &#8211; as a key note speaker on the issues of global warming.<\/p>\n<p>I say &#8220;regardless&#8221; because some people may think the movie is biased just for one reason &#8211; that he&#8217;s the main character. In fact he is not. He&#8217;s just the person who tells us how important it is to save our planet from ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>You will read plenty of information on the Internet about the movie, or about the global warming. I can recommend the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.climatecrisis.net\/takeaction\/\">official web site<\/a>. You may notice that I&#8217;ve linked not the main page, but the page &#8220;Take Action&#8221;. Yes! It is important not to know about the problem, but actually to do something about it.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I have done, what I am doing, or what one could do to lower the influence on the climate:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Plant trees<\/strong>. I have planted thirteen* trees in my life. They are in front of the building I live in Sofia.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Try not to use too much electriciy<\/strong>. Whenever I can live without turning on the electiricy, I stay in the dark, or I switch only one bulb.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Try night laundry and dishwasher<\/strong>. I turn the dishwasher only during night time, and I avoid using the drying cycle. Would be good to dry clothes outside, instead in the drying machine.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Make informaction public<\/strong>. Five years ago I was the first one to start an information campaign that the forest at the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.visitbulgaria.net\/places\/vitosha\/index.shtml\">Vitosha mountain<\/a> (right next to Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria) was dying.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Drive economically<\/strong>. In Europe I make about 50 mpg, and in the US about 40 mpg. I try not to use the car, if I can go by foot or by public transport. I never keep the engine running, while I am waiting for someone (and I wonder why every US driver does exactly the opposite!?).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Use fluorescent lights<\/strong>. I&#8217;ve installed compact fluorescent lights at home in Sofia since 1995, and some of them are still working &#8211; more than 10 years now!<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t keep the A\/C running all the time. I try.<\/li>\n<li>Try to walk on the stairs instead of using the elevator. I try.<\/li>\n<li>Try to buy organic food all the time, because it does not use chemicals. I do.<\/li>\n<li>Recycle. We do.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do you do?<\/p>\n<p>_____<br \/>\n* &#8211; Actually they were 14, but one of them was stolen (sic!) the first night after I planted it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(first published on May 25, 2006, but decided it&#8217;s good to bring it to the front, as Al Gore just won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work) A group of people &#8211; 40 altogether &#8211; we went to see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/?p=64\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-in-english"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}