I use this blog to explore and consider environmental issues. Within the hierachy of structural forces causing suffering, injustice and destruction to living beings, including sexism, racism, homophobia and other structures of oppression it is how humans are destroying the natural world that pains me enormously. The natural world can not fight back against bull dozers, chainsaws, murder, poison, pollution and garbage.
For reasons mostly to do with privacy i dont tend to talk about other things i feel passionate about or are personal... have tried to avoid this being a confessional. I cringe at the thought of over sharing.... but here goes any way.
I recently came across the blog of Elissa Altman titled Poor mans feast. Its an absorbing beautifully articulate series of stories about her life. I particulary like the way she writes about her deep love for her family especially her female partner. Shes not shy in her breadth of topics.
If I was a writer id like to imagine I'd write with her emotional intelligence... i have a title. ...Lessons my mother never taught me' inspired by the reality that so much of what i know about life, relationships and myself has come from the agonisingly slow processes of the succeses and mistakes of my lived life.
At 50 I feel the tick tock of time ringing louder and I have much that i want to experience.
So back to the main theme of the environment. I went to Gilli Meno again this year. T calls it Gilli Nemo because in part she loves to be silly and she knows i go to snorkel and gawk at the many fishes. My Mum has the adorable habit of calling it the Gillian Islands. Shes really is speaking 'double dutch'. Gilli means island in Indonesia so shes in essence saying island island.
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| With my feet up at Gilli Meno |
To my great surprise things are changing regarding plastic rubbish. It seems the Balanese have stopped blaming the Javanese and vice versa for the problem. Locals everywhere have activated and are doing regular cleanups. While erosion is eating into the eatern side of the island the absence of plastic rubbish is heartening.
There are more bins around and the mesh contains the contents better
Drinking bottles as rubbish bins and building material
To reduce the number of water bottles, many warrungs offer to refill bottles with drinking water from the 10 litre reusable bottles.
Another solution of sorts was to use them as mini bins for other smaller pieces of plastic rubbish. My friend at the warrung explained that when full, they will be used to build a temple. Now to me that is devine!
My favorite use of plastic bottles is in the construction of hot houses. Using rubbish for functional structures is in my opinion obvious.
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