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Name: phunky
Country: United States
State: Virginia
Metro: Fairfax County
Birthday: 10/19/1982
Gender: Female
Interests: muisc, writing, reading, dancing, Law & Order, serial killers, acrylics, phunky, puhnk, peircings, tattoos, Ciao Hall, google, x-stitching, food
Expertise: Law & Order law, procrastination, dreaming
Occupation: Student
Industry: Art
Message: message meEmail: email me
Website: visit my website
AIM:  phunkypuhnk21
Yahoo:  phunkypuhnk
Member Since:
5/11/2002
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| New PageAs sad as it is I think I'm abandoning XANGA for good. . . Please visit me at my New Page, it has an RSS feed and everything.
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| New Web PageOkay . . . This is the earliest evolution of my new site . . . um . . .so go see
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| Sorry to disappointAfter all this time (it seems like forever doesn't it?) I'm thinking of leaving Xanga and starting my own website. It is still early in construction (inhibited by dog sitting and a nearly tragic computer meltdown) but I hope to have it completly up and running by the end of the month. It will combine my Xanga, with this new idea for green tips, religion (online bos), and daily writing. So I hope to see you over there. | | |
| Green CarsI don't own a car but I do depend on them very often. Usually I'll have people pick me up and cart me around and then they have to drive back alone. This year I'm trying to combine trips. When the cars and the people I want to see are already passing this way and I'm just an extra stop.
Also this year, both my parents got new cars. My mom got a smaller car while my dad got a hybrid SUV. I'm very pleased, happy, and proud about this. I don't know how much of a real effect I had on the decision making (I think I just annoyed my dad) but I like that my parents used their economic clout and made a choice that has a good effect for the environment. I mean if you've got a car, in this society you really need a car, the least you can do is get one with the tiniest impact possible.
Here are a few tips from the EPA for saving gas and the environment:
Make sure your tires are properly inflated.
Travel at speeds less than 65 mph. (55 will save 15% gas over 65mph expenditure)
And of course: WALK, BIKE, BUS, or CARPOOL instead.
For more government endorsed tips go to: What Can You Do?
They have some really good, quick, and easy tips. Plus, if you're in the market for a new car you can compare fuel efficiency on all sorts of models. Even if you're not getting a new car you should just go play around with it, it's pretty fun.
Here's an idea from me:
When you're running errands say to the post office and the grocery store, not only combine your own two trips into one but maybe help a neighbor out too. That way you are helping Earth and the people next door at the same time.
Stay GREEN!! And maybe even a little phunky!  | | |
| ChangeSo I was thinking. Which I do a lot. Being an English major taking only 3 classes and having no job. Well. I would really like to use my online presence for some good. Ranting is nice. The occasional creative spewing is good. Tales of drunken yesterday. . . well, I won't lie that's pretty damn awesome. But I've got these beliefs. Passions. Changes I would like to effect. So Xanga, once again, will become a place for some of that.
Taking my American Renaissance class, we're reading Thoreau and Emerson. Whom I've always admired. But now I realize I'm pretty much a transcendentalist. I mean not so much with the children are the seers of wisdom and poets are the preachers. That sounds like crazy cult crap to me. But most of the other stuff, I think. I sit in class and I think this exactly how I always felt and thought and blah blah blah.
So what does this have to do with green? Well, I like the environment. And I want to save it. I want to spread the message of living green and sustainable this and that. We only have one planet. And whether we're on the brink of destruction or still have some years left, we can never get this place back. And if you're one of those crazies who say we have no impact whatsoever on the planet . . . well, your a crazy and this probably isn't the blog for you. BUT if that's true then what's the harm just changing some little things if they don't inconvenience you?
I'd like to offer tidbits and spread the word. So that's what I'm going to do. Saving Mother Earth. One blog at a time.
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