Emily Hoffberg - Lindy Hopper

Go and register to vote. If you don’t, you won’t be able to vote. So do it!

We all need to do our part. What are you doing to make a difference?

These are the changes I have made:

When I shower, I turn off the water when I put product on my hair, face, and body
When I shower, I use a bucket to catch the extra water while it warms up (before I get in) and then keep it in the back to catch extra.
I don’t brush my teeth with the water running.
I only do laundry when I have a full load.
I decline having water while at restaurants; there will always be someone who doesn’t drink theirs.

(and energy-wise, I also unplug things when they aren’t being used. Keeping your cell phone charger, blender, play station, or whatever plugged in used quite a bit of energy over the year and is costly for your wallet.)

Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

Why you should listen to him:
Why don’t we get the best out of people? Sir Ken Robinson argues that it’s because we’ve been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers. Students with restless minds and bodies — far from being cultivated for their energy and curiosity — are ignored or even stigmatized, with terrible consequences. “We are educating people out of their creativity,” Robinson says. It’s a message with deep resonance. Robinson’s TEDTalk has been distributed widely around the Web since its release in June 2006. The most popular words framing blog posts on his talk? “Everyone should watch this.”

A visionary cultural leader, Sir Ken led the British government’s 1998 advisory committee on creative and cultural education, a massive inquiry into the significance of creativity in the educational system and the economy, and was knighted in 2003 for his achievements.