WORLD WITHOUT US, author, Alan Weisman shared thoughts to inspire WEF WOMEN to action: 

1) Limit the number of offspring. (A 2008 study by Oregon State University scientists — “Reproduction and the carbon legacies of individuals.” Murtaugh, Paul A.; Schlax, Michael G., Global Environmental Change, Vol. 19 (2009) pp. 14–20 — estimates that “…under current conditions in the United States, for example, each child adds about 9441 metric tons of carbon dioxide to the carbon legacy of an average female, which is 5.7 times her lifetime emissions.”)
2) Write your legislators to demand introducing a bill to make it a crime for any store in Michigan to give away a free plastic bag.
3) Emulate our female ancestor by planting a garden each spring and living as much as possible off its produce.  Include nutritious crops like potatoes and cabbages that can last all winter.

Resources:  The Curious Garden by Peter Brown

                         Brother Eagle, Sister Skywith paintings by Susan Jeffers

                         Carbon footprint calculator: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/ind_calculator.html

ps – Thank you Anna Bonnema, our Guest Lecturer, for providing green fuel-for-thought for WEF Members!

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