Message? Found in free image.

Discovered another site where I can find free images for my blogs.  It's Pixabay where I found this clip art.

Why share it here?

I see a message there.  It seems to be saying, "Give up your fuel guzzling car.  Let's cycle". That's a funny tall order to follow through for earth month.

I like it that I can freely use any image from PixaBay in digital and printed format, for personal and commercial use.  Share your photos there if you can but note that you will not be attributed for your effort if your work is used :(

It will be a good green effort though.  We can help one another save on draining battery life shooting with our digital cameras.

The Green Thing

Something to think about from My InBox:

The Green Thing In the line at the supermarket, the young cashier told an older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The old woman apologized to him and explained, "We didn't have the green thing back in my day." The young cashier responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment." He was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day. Back then, we returned milk bottles, soft drink bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the green thing back in our day. We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day. Back then, we washed the baby's nappies because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 240 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry the clothes. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that old lady is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day. Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen almost the size of the wall.   In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used a wadded up old newspaper to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.   Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We either used a push mower that ran on human power, or we use manual sickle.   We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then. We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled fountain pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the green thing back then. Back then, people took the tram or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their mothers into a 24-hour taxi service.   We had one power point in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances.   And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint. But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then? Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart-ass young person. Remember: Don't make old people mad. When we get mad we use logic!

 

 

 

 

This is a serious message.

Sometimes you need to be funny to be heard.

Global Warming

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Graffiti Is A Crime?

To many who have had their properties damaged by graffiti, it is indeed a crime to paint, mark, scratch, scrawl on properties that do not belong to you. It's vandalism!

But if we are to think along Newton's Third Law of Motion that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction, then the more appropriate statement to use should be:

"Graffiti is a crime if you don't see the social and political messages in them."

What were the reasons (actions)that initiated the graffiti (reactions)? If you see graffiti displaying the same messages everywhere you go it is likely that the issues have never been resolved.

Look at my graffiti. What are you going to do about it?

Graffiti Is A Crime

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Earth is our home.

Juanarmas message should be heard as he is talking about our home.

Earth

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I do not have another place to go to if Earth is destroyed. Do you?