The longest journey begins with a single step... Tao te Ching
In response to the changes occurring globally it is our responsibility to act locally - taking the small steps. Each and every dropped candy wrapper, cigarette butt, and MacDonald's box contributes to the vast amount of debris that may well end up in our rivers, lakes and oceans.
These pages, and other online media, will concentrate not on accusations but on consciousness. It is up to us to educate our children. It is up to us to take a stand on what is acceptable behavior from ourselves as well as from our friends and neighbors. It is up to us to be aware of how we contribute to the problem, and to acknowledge ourselves for personal efforts in changing it for the better.
Please check out the twlitter blog and microblog (you'll find the links in the side-bar on the right of the this page). Please participate here there or anywhere that you feel that you can be of service.
NOTE: There is nothing in this project that is about making money. There are no buttons to buy, nothing to vote on, no t-shirts, bumper stickers, mugs or lapel pins. Instead this is the idea of spreading a very simple concept: do something about it and encourage others to do the same. I believe that it is important to remember to proceed with our project in the spirit of patience and kindness. This is not a war on litter. It is an awareness.
This seems a proper place for the video I've placed on youtube:
And I have also embedded it on the blog etc., etc. I am after all proud of it...
The planet is in need of care and attention. We are it's caretakers.
Jonathan,
This is a great project, I absolutely love following your TwLitter---it's so inspiring, and I hope that others follow your cue. It's important to throw away our garbage, take care of our city and our Earth. You've done a magnificent job using the technology available. Thank you for sharing this! And I look forward to continue following TwLitter even after this semester is over!
Best,
Andie
Jonathan,
As always, great work! I am so hopeful that this will change people's thinking about Litter. The blog is also a great compliment to Twitter. It becomes the reason to use Twitter..and lets hope for some action.
Ditto, great project! I like the positive stance of creating awareness as opposed to making accusations. Your project also seems to have kind of activated the best and most useful characteristics of the technologies youre using.
Hey jonathan - i like the blog as well as the link to the subway photo - just curious, do you think the twitter thing would be more effective if more than one person could post to something like a twitter group about litter? i think that's one of the drawbacks of twitter - really, only one person is "twitting" - the option of creating a group is pretty limited, unless everyone has seperate twitter accounts for following different people. re: litter - i am of the personal opinion that the things people drop on the ground - the packaging of consumption, should never have been produced in the first place. true, it becomes a bigger problem when they're discarded - but where does our trash go? I don't necessarily think that throwing our trash away in the "proper receptacle" is the problem - but rather the initial production and consumption of all this waste in the first place. (the US being the top consumer on the planet...)
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This is the microblog http://twitter.com/TwLitter and the blog http://BLitterOg.blogspot.com/ is linked from that, and now, both of those are linked from here. Soon there will be more links connecting to other aspects of this work. All of these pages are open for comment and input. I encourage everyone to participate in any way possible.
There are many different ways that people choose to work on the problem. I will be listing links to sites that contribute to a cleaner place to live. I am not endorsing any of these, rather I am making them known:
Air polution is also litter. In Arizona people working to stop the trashing our air: http://runningoutofair.com/
and the fact is as they'er pointing out it's not all bad. This, blog points to the real issue: passengers neediing to become the caretakers of their own enviroment. Thank you very much.
Comments (6)
Andie said
at 7:29 pm on May 8, 2008
Jonathan,
This is a great project, I absolutely love following your TwLitter---it's so inspiring, and I hope that others follow your cue. It's important to throw away our garbage, take care of our city and our Earth. You've done a magnificent job using the technology available. Thank you for sharing this! And I look forward to continue following TwLitter even after this semester is over!
Best,
Andie
karen said
at 10:37 pm on May 8, 2008
This is not a war on litter, it is an awareness .. well said Jonathan
LaraCM said
at 1:13 pm on May 9, 2008
Jonathan,
As always, great work! I am so hopeful that this will change people's thinking about Litter. The blog is also a great compliment to Twitter. It becomes the reason to use Twitter..and lets hope for some action.
Jen_Kunz said
at 8:20 pm on May 9, 2008
Jonathan, I agree with the others, great project! I think people forgot just how important it is not litter. Great use of the technologies! Great job!
Sarah Langley said
at 11:15 am on May 12, 2008
Ditto, great project! I like the positive stance of creating awareness as opposed to making accusations. Your project also seems to have kind of activated the best and most useful characteristics of the technologies youre using.
olgadamnitz said
at 2:29 am on May 13, 2008
Hey jonathan - i like the blog as well as the link to the subway photo - just curious, do you think the twitter thing would be more effective if more than one person could post to something like a twitter group about litter? i think that's one of the drawbacks of twitter - really, only one person is "twitting" - the option of creating a group is pretty limited, unless everyone has seperate twitter accounts for following different people. re: litter - i am of the personal opinion that the things people drop on the ground - the packaging of consumption, should never have been produced in the first place. true, it becomes a bigger problem when they're discarded - but where does our trash go? I don't necessarily think that throwing our trash away in the "proper receptacle" is the problem - but rather the initial production and consumption of all this waste in the first place. (the US being the top consumer on the planet...)
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