About this blog
Posted by admin Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:57:00 GMT
Ok, now that this blog has been mentioned first time outside (thanks Esinetarinoita!), maybe it would be good to clarify a bit the nature of this.
I'm not much a green myself. More or less, I just suffer from bad conscience of not doing anything. So partly starting the blog is an internal process of trying to get some action by talking about it first a lot. Maybe something then happens too...
I'm also convinced that very few people will be volunteering to sacrifice their living standards just for being ecological. In general, I trust in political decision making and large scale steering to make any significant changes e.g. to counter-act climate change. So, if there are no strong external forces, people will go on consuming as they have been doing so far.
Therefore, I don't want to start making myself or others feel really bad about buying something nice for themselves. On the contrary, I'd rather feel happy about my decisions so that I like the products and services that I get, but at the same time make the best available purchase decisions that are also the most environmentally friendly.
So, in brief, go ahead and buy a car, but before doing that, pay attention to the emission values and consider that as one criteria when selecting the make and model. I plan to do that, too.
PS. If you know people interested in helping out in developing this site, please let me know. I'm seriously lacking skills in web services, Rails, graphic design, etc... PS2. Why Ekoneko? Neko is a cat in Japanese. And it sort of rhymes. And the domain name was available!
