An ill worded appeal

Dear World,

I am in the grip of one of those passionate frenzies that grip me from time to time. A feeling similar to that that I used to get when contemplating the possibilities of the dialectic website. (Which I believe to have been a short lived, but relatively successful venture). I therefore apologise for what follows, but hope you will see through the frantic delusions and the haze of bad grammar and try to hear what I am trying to say. Having done that, please go on to rubbish the idea in the feedback section.

It is too do with the Green movement. My current excitement is fuelled by my own recent conversion to a 'phase change' view of social movements, Al Gore's recent film, the Tory parties 'green' talk, the news that George Bush himself is about to announce new green policies for America and the recent Economist 'header' I have just finished reading.

All of this has acted to re-ignite an idea I outline in one of my 'holiday' blog posts about setting up yet another blog, for the purposes for sharing with the world my green achievements and failures. Hopefully I will benefit both through the feedback of others and also through the self-checking nature of the blog itself - I can lie more easily to myself than I can my friends, if you follow. Hence by publicly stating and tracking my efforts to minimise my ecological footprint I hope to pursue that goal more effectively.

I would like to know what you think of this idea, both good and bad, and I would also like you to consider another possibility should this initial idea be even half a success. That possibility is to be the potential for creating a 'network' of other such sites. So for example a second person may begin to keep a similar blog - linked to others doing the same thing. In doing so we would create more a 'communal' feel in our efforts in becoming greener - a feeling through which I feel all participants would benefit immensely. I would have a lot more enthusiasm for my own green efforts knowing that someone else in another location was attempting to do the same thing, I would enjoy being able to sit back and view our shared struggle. If you follow the logic.

The blogs would not have to be devoted to this sole aim, so long as they kept regular posts upon them. Perhaps a new blog is not even required for this purpose and the plan might be better executed if existing blogs and networks were used instead. Also, the idea is not that everyone follows a strict and universal regime but rather that each person does their own thing based on their own means and circumstances. The sharing of these ideas is where half the strength of this network would lie. It is not supposed to be a strict thing and indeed failures and relapses would add to the human element of the scheme and the readability of the blog. It is supposed to be a casual thing and I hope I do not scare people off by coming on too strongly or seem to be suggesting something akin to joining a hippie commune. That is not my intention.

Often when I am in the grip of such frenzies my thinking becomes blurry, relatively small ideas seem to become world changing and pipe dreams seem very simple to achieve. Hence I would like to know what you think on this matter.

Regards,