Why Should I Care?

Green Seniors has always prided itself in providing materials for people who want to carry out communication work either as part of a group or individually. For this purpose we have now developed an ongoing catalog of these materials as a single page on this web site. You can find this link on the left hand navigation bar as "Downloads and Other Resources".

The latest resource is a new poster we created in response to a reader's request for something she could use in a community hall. Essentially she wanted to know how to answer the simple question, "Why should I care?" This is something we suspect the majority of people -- unlike most of you reading this -- ask themselves whenever they are told they should reduce the amount they drive, buy, use electricity, heat their home and so on.

So why should people care about the future of the planet?

The poster, which you can download as an Adobe PDF file here, points out some of the key reasons, ranging from the scientific to the philosophical:

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Because…

…the climate is changing and humans are the major cause

…animal and plant extinctions are happening faster than at any time in history

…every bucket of seawater contains plastic

…every person contains chemical residues

…the arctic ocean will be ice free in less than a decade

…we have placed our grandchildren in jeopardy

…we have been lured into thinking unsustainable economic growth makes people happier

…we are losing our connection with community, family and everything around us

…we have forgotten that we are part of nature

…we have a choice!

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We think it will have an effect on a great many people.

Please print out the poster and place it wherever you think it might make a difference.

Comments

[Alex Ireland]

Great post and we all should care about saving our planet. I came across a site that allows me to opt out from getting telephone books. Think of all the books you get dropped on your front door, year after year. www.YellowPagesGoesGreen.org will allow you to sign up for free and they will contact the publishers and tell them to stop the nonsense.

[Bonnie Turner]

We have some very useful downloads on our site. I invite you to take a look, read online and/or download as Word documents, PDF files or html files and share with other people who are concerned.
They all link from the home page
http://www.grayisgreen.org/

Handbook on Conservation for Retirement Communities: a practical guide to the green life.

SHADES OF GREEN:
A GREEN COMMUNITY SERVICE CHECKLIST FOR SELF-EVALUATION BY RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES

and a document about our newly incorporated National Senior Conservation Corps.
We also have some free posters:
http://www.grayisgreen.org/posters.shtml

Comments and suggestions welcome
Bonnie Turner

[Keith Farnish]

Thanks Bonnie -- timely as always.

Here is the working link: http://www.grayisgreen.org/posters.shtml