The ultimate environmentalist

Ok, so what would an ultimate environmentalist look like?
Here are some principles to guide us as we look for that elusive person.
He or (she) should waste as little as possible, recycle as much as possible, have as small a carbon footprint (OK, not to me, but to the greenies and such) - I have met such a person (actually I have known this person all my life)
She buys only what is needed, there is minimal to almost no waste (a days' trash fits into a can that is smaller than a US 1 gallon milk container), she uses energy sparingly (turns off lights, fans when no one is in the room), does not eat meat of any kind (so no methane or such gases), walks to the market whenever she can (using the taxi when those around her pester to use the taxi, since she is after all, not so young anymore) - she knows about every item in the home (small as it may be) - it's history and where it came from and what to do with it - who has what - no wasted space of any - compact storage of everything ... A clothes washing machine she uses sparingly else she soaks, a maid comes in to hang/dry the clothes (no electric dryers here, no, no) ... I can imagine you can guess who this person is - could be ... Oh yes, she taught me languages, mathematics, science - anything she knew when I was a little boy - and oh yes she was always on our cases to "study, study, study" - and constantly worried about us all - yea, even today - she is probably of the opinion that no one can take care of people in her family like she can - no one - and yea, I may know a few things, but she knows a lot ...

India, Nov 16, 2009, evening

Density, density -- all I could think about - also traffic when there was almost none - sign of progress? or is it that Mumbai continues to attract people from all over India? There are many schools around in the neighborhood I grew up - it is still busy - and lots of activity in the morning, afternoon - they have two shifts apparently - morning for big kids (11 and 12 grades) and afternoon for little ones - just about everything looks different, ... dense, dense

India, Nov 16, 2009

Mumbai (or Bombay) - the same old, same old - lots of people, traffic, honking and more honking, noise ... Oh well ... some of it is coming back ... I keep thinking back of calm, quiet Alabama - very quiet ... Athena is looking at everything - so different indeed - she seems to be chugging along nicely - A long plane ride - an almost 15 hour non stop flight fron Newark to Mumbai ... yea, not a lot of fun - this is what I wish I could have been in the 1st class - lots of room to stretch and deal with the long flight - not easy in the back of the plane, but I guess bearable

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