My blog response is dealing with my classmate, Samantha Johnson on her blog post entitled "Going Green" . I must first point out that her statement has been very well written, and on a good subject at that, concerning the topic of "Going Green" which has seem to be the new catchphrase for quite sometime. In her blog she mentions that the US Cabinet is actually planning a multi million dollar package that will go towards finding re newable resources. The state of Ohio has already started to jump on this bandwagon by requiring over 12% of thier energy from solar or from wind ( I give two "green" thumbs up for this).
With that being mentioned, I am fully agreeing with Samantha on this one, Going Green should be pushed further into our country. Even have other states follow something similar to what Ohio is already doing. I'm not sure how anyone can disagree about being green for our mother earth, as it can help save our planet and make it better. Its actually being done as we speak, there are alot of people spreading the word about making our planet a better place, using re newable resources for something else. Alot of people are already recycling which is a big help in eliminating waste and polution from the air that we breathe. We save trees that allow us to have air in the first place. Not only recycling is helping us, but also by carpooling we eliminate gas from the air as well, thus preventing further polution in our ecosystem. There are even now in the makes (or already are) cars that we can simply plug into an outlet and have it recharge, reducing oil consumption that may one day be completly gone. Where would we go from there? rechargable cars of course. This is the new future that could one day make a very noticable impact on our ecosystem.
Going from that, there is a program called Ecomagination that has actually teamed up with "celebrities" on Youtube, to spread the word about being eco friendly to our world. By doing so viewers, or subscribers actually suggested ideas to them to do to help. From there the Youtubers picked thier favorite ones, or by the viewers popular vote, and went out to film thier assignment. For an example, iJustine, who is one of the well known Youtubers who participated with Ecomagination, went with carpooling. Though the kind of carpooling you wouldn't expect ( click here ) I must say its pretty inventive, and of course humorous. With Ecomagination branching out to social media sites, maybe more people will participate and " Get Your Green On".
