15 October 2007 par Pascale

Today is a good day.
Why you could ask. It’s Monday, casual day of work. Well, it’s a good day, because tons of people today will write and read about one issue. A good idea from Blogactionday.org, each year is to speak about a common topic to show how much we all care about it, can think about it and find a way to work upon it. This year, it’s all about environnement.

This morning I woke up take a nice shower, make my tea. No need to go far to get some, just the tap in the kitchen. Lots of people don’t have this freedom and simple pleasure. Drinkable water at hand, as much as they fancy.

But it’s not because it’s simple for us that it is not a kind of luxuary. I had the great joy some years ago to go to the dominican Republic for holydays. It’s a fantastic land, happy people, music everywhere, sun allday. But you can’t drink tap water or you get ill. Then I realize that I was pretty lucky.

So ok. but, why talking about that ? They don’t have drinkable tapwater, why should I be concerned ? Well, the thing is, we all need to be very careful about water. We share it. We live on the same planet, everything we do have a consequence. It’s just a physical law : every action get reaction. Even the tiny one.

Please, we can’t afford anymore to play blind with that problem and say “the government should do something”.
We can do lots of tiny things to help. For ladies and make-up artist for example :

1. Try to get as little as possible of packaging. Look for any refill form of stuff you use, like soap… and get the empty boxes recycled in the proper bin.
2. Avoid as much as possible the cleansing pads or wipes, for you face, your babies or your house. Lotion is a sure bet : put on your skin with your hand, do a little masssage and rinse. The Earth and your skin will love it ! For your house, find natural trick to clean without those wipes who just do lots of waste.
3. Pamper your skin with little products. Your skin won’t be able to digest too many informations or different types of products. Get a good oil or moisturizer and stick to it.
4. For cleaning your brushes, try to keep the brush cleaner for emergency issue (on set, brushes falling on the floor or between clients). Prefer soap for casual cleaning each evening.
5. Don’t let the water run while you clean your hands, your hair, your teeth or your brushes.
6. Love yourself and your natural hair. Coloration is sooooo full of nociv ingredients. Try Henné instead, or some nice oil treatment to simply get them shiny.
7. Re-use papers you don’t need. I keep a bunch of the old versions of scenarii, timesheet and so on that are out of date or that I do not need anymore and use them for brainstorming, writing down my shopping list etc…
8. Look for gear that have a reliable battery time, and why not get some solar system to charge your ipod, phone and so on ? Put it on your christmas list.
9. On set, why not bring your own mug to lessen the waste ? or at least, put your name on your glass, remember where you put it, and keep using it all day.
10. Have a look out there, enjoy the air, the sun, the wind on your face. Smile. Be happy. Yes people you meet in the street, they deserve a smile too.

Be Earthfriendly and you’ll be able to see you as a Earth hero (well, you can forget about the tights… it’s old-fashioned anyway…)
Have a nice day !

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