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we add up

my (new awesome) friend marty was wearing this supercool t-shirt last night from weaddup.com that reflects the quote i’ve had as the tag to this blog for a while: “a movement is only people moving”. the idea is that not everyone can do everything possible to save the planet/humanity, so pick one thing, and represent!  each shirt is individually numbered when you order it, so you’re uniquely identified as person #00012148 who has made a lifestyle change to help save the planet.

The climate crisis is real and happening right now. It’s easy to feel helpless and overwhelmed. People are asking, “What difference will changing my light bulbs really make? The problem is so huge, and I’m just one person.”

WE ADD UP is a global campaign using organic cotton t-shirts that literally “counts you in” in the fight against global warming. Every shirt is printed by hand with a unique number. YOUR number represents your place in the sequential global count of all the people who are taking steps to help stop climate change. As the count grows, we demonstrate to the world that “WE ADD UP.” On the back of each shirt is a word or phrase that describes an action almost anyone can take to reduce their carbon footprint – the contribution their lifestyle makes to greenhouse gases – such as, Unplug, Lights Off, Carpool, Hybrid, Bike, Buy Local, and 18 others. You choose which action you are committed to doing and get counted in. No one can do everything. Everyone can do something. And, WE ADD UP.

100% organic cotton, USA made, sweatshop-free, and printed with YOUR number.

i do more than one of these things (recycle, vegan, unplug, organic, buy local, drink tap water, shower together), but i’m choosing BIKE because as of the end of this month, i will no longer have a car and will become a full time bike/mass transit commuter. jay is losing his company car privileges, and he needs a car to commute. for the last couple of months i have been biking to work half the time anyway, so he’s just going to use our car. i just can’t imagine buying another car for so many reasons, when i can reasonably bike and/or take the bus. it will make some aspects of my life more difficult (no more stopping at the grocery or running errands on the way home from work, and getting to the gym from the office in time for the classes i like to take will be a challenge), but at the same time, i really enjoy riding my bike around the city, especially to work in the morning, so i’m sort of looking forward to the shift. at least until it starts getting dark and cold and rainy.

i might also get a ‘DRINK TAP‘ shirt because of how completely wasteful buying bottled water is, and i’d certainly like to promote more drinking of tap water.

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