August 19, 2010 @ 10:35 AM 4 Comments

Filed under: Environmental Awareness, Personal

Since I really got vocal about my recycling and my green lifestyle (as I’ve always ‘silently’ recycled & cared for our planet) I’ve been the pun of many jokes. Friends and co-workers alike seem to think it’s really funny what I do. Yet at the same time, and this is what I was aiming for, it rubs off on them too!

Plastic cups are being reused again and again until people go home, plastic bags and normal waste no longer seem to disappear into paper waste areas out of sheer laziness. Imagine having to get up out of a seat to walk a few steps to a trash can *gasp*. And the best part; people have told me they (try to) apply recycling at home as well as paying more attention to ecofriendlier things (such as switching electronic appliances off, buying saving lights etc)

My recycle mania is jokingly called OCRD Obesessive Compulsive Recycling Disorder (that probably has something to do with the fact I take my plastic waste home from work to dispose of it properly ). But as long as my recycling & living green (buying organic/local products) rubs off on other people and they start caring for our planet too it’s well worth having OCRD or being called ‘organic woman’!

So I’m happy I was able create awareness in the people around me, and I hope they will, in their turn, inspire others to go for the right choice; going green!

August 08, 2010 @ 8:35 PM 1 Comment

Filed under: Amazing, Awareness, Charity, Ecofriendly, Environmental Awareness, Happenings

A few days ago I was directed towards CrowdRise via twitter. I never heard of it but after checking it out it seemed like something I really wanted, no, needed, to be part of. It’s an online community with profiles of people trying to create awareness, get the word out and raise money for projects they believe in and/or have set up themselves.

Because I feel so powerless in the whole BP oilspill disaster, as I live so far away to physically do something, the only thing I can do is spread the word about it and create awareness. But now, I can do something else too! Sophia Bush is running for the Gulf in November and by doing that, she hopes to raise money for the Gulf.
I’ve joined the team online on Crowdrise and already donated myself. It doesn’t matter how much you donate, every little bit helps! So I want to ask you all to go to the official Run For The Gulf site (on crowdrise) and donate if you can! It can make such a difference.

And don’t think that the Gulf oilspill is ‘so far away’ from your home that it doesn’t matter. It does! Environmental disasters matter to everyone on this planet no matter where it happens en no matter where you live.

If you can’t donate money, please join the team to spread the word and try to help us raise money for this run! Sophia also says:

Everyone who donates $50 or more to http://bit.ly/9ML8RT will get s signed 8×10! Please ask your friends to all donate whatever they can!

So join the team, help us raise money for the Gulf and even get a signed 8×10 (if you donate $50 or more)!

August 01, 2010 @ 2:45 PM 1 Comment

Filed under: Awareness, Ecofriendly, Personal, Updates

As promised before the weekend, Silent-Butterfly.com is now black, or at least mostly black. After learning that black (or dark) screens save energy, I figured the best I could do for my site is go dark. I did add a few splashes of colour, just because I don’t want it to go all grey, black and overall dark.

It might not be the prettiest layout around, but it works for me and the thoughts behind the site and that’s all that matters

Edit // I was pointed to this article on Google that says it depends on your screen if dark backgrounds use less energy. If you have the wrong screen it might even use MORE so make sure you check your monitor type!