Energy

When I look out of my kitchen window I can ships sail by with containers as a cargo. Often I see LNG-ships or ships with scrap-metal sailing by.
When I see the bulk ships with coals I must think of the coal driven energy plants and the pollution, the climate change goals, the disastrous Copenhagen 2009 Climate conference, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and so on.

Countries can't reach agreements on climate change for various reasons but people can. A little less meat, air miles, less energy by using saving lights or Led lights, lower temperature in house, not spilling food and so on.
It saves not only money but also the environment for you and your children.

For example, when I was a kid in 1978 I always played in the field and on the canal.
We made a raft of wood and cans for herbicides farmers left behind. There was a lot of negligence in society, even 32 years ago. In the eighties of last century the awareness grew that the environment could be polluted.

But still if companies can do something in favour of the environment it still isn't done automatically.
What about energy used by ordinary people like you and me? Companies deliver the energy no matter where it comes from (coal or nuclear plants, wind or water energy, it's all the same power) This energy is grey.

But if you really want you can make your part green.
So I changed my contract with my energy supplier. The energy I use from now on is guaranteed green. So I'm a little bit greener from this day.

oil leak may 2010

1500 meter under the surface of the sea. Does humanity learn from it? Did humanity learn from Exxon Valdez?

crow

Last year I spoke to someone about everyday problems.
Last week I had a test about my problems with irritations, stimulants. Today I had another test which took 6 hours. So I had to be a bit relaxed.

I took some time to get on the location. When I (bi)cycled to the appointment I suddenly felt a strike against my head. First I looked beside me, nobody to see. Then I heard a bird. I saw a crow flying behind me, attacking me. I tried to hit. it. The animal avoided me. It flew away while I covered my aching head.
The incident kept me busy for another hour.

On my way back home the same bird on the same spot tried to attack me again. I saw him and could scare him off.

Alfred Hitchcock used more birds to scare a villagepopulation... but this bird scared me more than any bird I ever met. It was only a crow.

Update

An update of what's happening. It's going fast right now.
Last week I was working in one building on a good spot between people I know a few years. (some 8 years!) Now I am on another department doing my job between other people. I don't really have to work with them to do my work, but as it is like it is you might be opportunistic and use the situation to improve the organization.

My co-worker who'll be transferred with me is ill momentarily which gives a little bit pressure on me because some work has to be postponed.

The other thing is the Works Council. It's going great. My colleagues and I wrote a advice in concept for the Council members to criticise. This week it will be offered as a advice to the Management Team. (they don't know but I wrote it in one evening watching a football game)

The new workplace is in another building and breaths a different more business like atmosphere.
Still I/we have a lot to do to work as effective as we could work in the past. But the way to my previous department is longer and there are some obstacles which make it not easy to work.