Living Large In Our Little House

I know that the Gusher in the Gulf has every­one think­ing about the envi­ron­ment and our depen­dence on oil. I’ve been think­ing about it a lot at Our Little House.

If 9–11 didn’t start mak­ing us think about it, or the sky­rock­et­ing gas prices that hit an all time high in 2008, I think this was def­i­nitely America’s last wake up call.

Since my post about being depressed over the news, I’m sure many of us have found our own ways to deal with the dis­as­ter, to help relieve the pres­sure for the earth to give us  more oil.

Did you know that if every sin­gle American that dri­ves a car could reduce their dri­ving by 30 miles each week – in essence giv­ing up their cars for just one day – we could reduce America’s over­all con­sump­tion by 20 percent?

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I have been feel­ing espe­cially help­less and hope­less here at Our Little House lately and after speak­ing with many of my friends, they are feel­ing the same way.

A lot of it has to do with the oil spill — I call it the gusher– in the Gulf.

Although part of my job as an envi­ron­men­tal writer is keep­ing abreast on what’s hap­pen­ing to our planet, I declared last week on Facebook that I couldn’t take one more story or see one more photo of tar balls wash­ing ashore, birds cov­ered in oil or dead tur­tles rot­ting on the beach (and many of my con­nec­tions agreed).

However, as with most deep funks, this one isn’t just caused by one huge disaster.

I think I’m on infor­ma­tion overload.

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