Filed under: Customers, Environment, Global Warming, Lifestyle, Organic, Service in SA | Tags: Go Green, Mondi, recycling, Service Delivery, South Africa
Well woman have to be the best at maintaining themselves, but I have to say sometimes people scare me when they don’t maintain themselves or their surroundings. It would be great if everyone just stopped littering and started recycling – yah dream on….
I had to laugh the other day when I received a certificate from Mondi recycling saying that I’ve become a mutual partner with them and thanking me for taking this step forward – when I have been trying to get in touch with these people for the last 2 months. They just don’t return calls / answer mails. I’ve wanted a recycling bin from them since September and now I am wrestling through these papers daily to get to my desk. My make shift recycling bin is pretty nifty even though no-one comes to collect any of it so the pile gets higher and higher but I’m deteremined to keep on doing it until maybe one day someone from a recycling company rocks up – maybe in my dreams in South Africa. I’ve actually emailed a few recycling companies, and to my surprise haven’t heard a word…..it’s like they really don’t want new clients they really don’t want us to be GREEN???
All I want to do is recycle so can someone hook me up with a company that is wanting my recyclable goods….
Desperatley seeking South African Recycler….
Filed under: Blogging, Life, Organic, Technology, Work/Life Balance | Tags: balance, Cyber hippy, freedom, freedom fighters, Technology
For a while now I have been grappling with a ‘secret’ contradiction… I have a problem with balancing my quest for freedom vs. my love of ‘most things’ technological.
I often preach that the internet is the one final frontier left for ‘freedom fighters’, BUT I keep thinking that at some point there may be an ‘up-swell’ of people that will reject the world of the computer/intenet/mobile to once again ‘find freedom and themselves’… On one side I get this [and I may even join the group.. if I can bring my laptop and iburst!]….NO really…..it would be cool to sometimes just go into total ‘switch off mode’ [eeekk!] and run away from the world and its noise.
The reality though, is that technology has become such a part of my life [I can just hear some of you saying.. sooo sad] and no matter how I try to reject it, I simply cant. I feel isolated, cut off and insular without it.. far from free…
So that got me thinking, will we ever get to the machines vs. humans [ala Matrix] stage? Are we pushing forward to fast and hard…forgetting [in part] what makes us human…personal interaction? Part of me wants to throw off my shoes and run carefree [wind in the hair etc etc] in a green meadow with grazing sheep, feeling the earth ooze beneath my feet.. I am a hippy at heart BUT the other part wants to create, surf, dig and interact with as much new technology as I can get my hands on… can I have it all?? Maybe I should call myself a cyber hippy?!
In the end I suppose its about finding my personal balance in a world of high speed and change.. not an easy one….
Posted by: Cyber Hippy [aka Candice]
