As our lives change, come whatever, we will still be, friends forever

In the mail the other day, I received an invitation to my graduation. Not only does it confirm that I have actually finished, it has set in motion a series of reflections over things i've learned in my time at uni. This post marks the first in a series on interesting things I learned over the last few years.

First up, when I was doing geography it was fairly typical to come across discussion of Sustainability. Actually sustainable development was a theme in most of the courses I did.

Anyway here is my perspective on the whole, climate change, "Green" debate that will hopefully sort out those battler old people that call up talk back after making up things and being mis-informed by crappy newspapers and other mis-informed old people.

First of all climate change. Way back in year 5 or something I did a project on the greenhouse effect and climate change. In terms of my lifetime nothing has changed since then and as a result I don't feel like it's a major issue. Too many people link climate change with green culture but I feel they are sepearate issues and it is more effective to treat them that way. However the solutions to each will have some things in common.

For me, Green culture is about increasing the environmental efficiency of everything we do. From turning out the lights in an office building to fuel efficiency in a Prius. By implementing things such Hybrid cars, and using those twisty light bulbs we have economic benefits, that have a by-product of being good for climate change (If it exists). If a business is being inefficient by employing too many temp workers, or having a poor business model, good management would change these in order to seek greater efficiency. So good management should ecompass energy efficiency and will in turn help out the environment. Makes sense to me.

So to those old people that are worried about having a shorter showers or sitting in the dark. Chill out (pun intended) Green culture isn't about reducing your level of comfort or luxury, it's about providing the same standard of living in the most efficeint way.

I promise my next post on uni will be a little more lighthearted but suck it up!