HOIST THE SAILS!!!

HOIST THE SAILS!

By John McConnell

Four billion years ago
Our lonely Earth
Set sail on cosmic seas
Guided by an unseen hand
Of nature, God or chance.

As life evolved
Through endless echo-cycles
Man was born, destined
To destroy or enrich
the Precious Ship.

And now his hand
Has seized the tiller
But his ear has not
Yet caught the Captain's
Quiet command.

The sails are down, the ship becalmed,
Its fragile life at stake.
No longer do we ride the gentle swells of
Silent seas and breathe
The fragrant air.

Broken are the rhythms
Of our cyclic plants
And other living things.

But now the Captain speaks again
Our quiet thoughts at last reveal his voice.

"Hoist the sails, Earth Man.
Set them for celestial winds.
Hold the tiler firm,
The course ahead is clear."

Be He nature, God or chance
His voice is heard
And we shall heed
The Captain's quiet command.

10 Ways to Go Green and Save Green

1. Save energy to save money. 

2. Save water to save money.

3. Less gas = more money (and better health!).

4. Eat smart.

5. Skip the bottled water.

6. Think before you buy.

7. Borrow instead of buying.

8. Buy smart.

9. Keep electronics out of the trash.

10. Make your own cleaning supplies.

Smarter Lighting: A Bright Idea

1. Replace your most frequently used incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent lights.

Fluorescent light bulbs use only a third as much electricity as a standard incandescent bulb. Fluorescent will usually last ten times as long as a regular bulb, which means it is will easily pay for itself. If every household in the U.S. replaced one light bulb with a compact fluorescent light bulb (CFL), it would prevent enough pollution to equal the removal of one million cars from the road.

2. Replace outdoor lighting with a motion-detector equipped bulb or fixture.

Outdoor lights that are left on all night can add unnecessary waste energy and disturb wildlife. You can safely and efficiently light the outside of your home by installing light fixtures that are activated by motion sensor or a timer. These devices will keep areas well lit when you need them to be while reducing your energy bill.

Deep In My Heart

Assalamualaikum. Well hello the world! lovers, haters and all my fellow friends. Base on the idea above, now i'm gonna write my own idea in this paragraph. Actually my ambition is to be a climatologist and work for NASA or World Meteorology Department. I want this badly because i love the earth, i want to study about the earth and also want to take a good care of it. Unfortunately, there is no climatology course in Malaysia and there is no climatologist in Malaysia. Insyaallah after i graduated from Austrialia's University , i will futher my study in climatology. Even now, i have study a lot about the nature because i want to find an idea to make people today change their attitude in making earth dying. If we can't change our attitude, we need to train our future generation to not to be like us. I know, it hard for us to change something that we are usually done but if we try our best insyaallah we gonna be better. If we done something 40 times consecutive, insyaallah it will stick as our own habit. If we train our self to done something good then we gonna be someone good, but if we train our self to done something bad the we gonna be someone bad. Actually, majority know what the right thing to do but because no one started to do a good thing then nobody gonna follow it. So, be the first person to done something positive. Stop everything that make earth dying with sincere heart, insyaallah there gonna be someone following you. That's all from me. Thank you. and sorry for grammar mistakes. Heee =) 

by: Mohamad Hilmi Faris Bin Azahari
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