MICROWAVE & VOTING

I saw 'an inconvenient truth' sometime ago and i recommend you do too.
Its available on the internet here, as a simple link:
http://www.peekvid.com/feature/movies/57/An-Inconvenient-Truth.html
Its by president candidate Al Gore, and is on global warming. I think the real contribution of this documentary is that it puts the problem into perspective. Its easy to undermine the importance and consequences of the problem, if we don't decide to act in time. I think even the personal and clearly made-for-americans sobby personal stories help tell how he got involved.
So watch it, it'll take you a couple of hours.
It also had a couple of simple and to my mind even effective ideas on what a regular person, without the authority of say, a vice-president of the U.S.

Vote for parties and candidates who support action against global warming (you might think this is evident, but Finland for example is opposing a EU unilateral reduction of greenhouse emissions, since it would be too expensive for our economy. Small trade-off, i say. Also, investment in new energy sources is the future anyway, which is what we should be looking into. )

Call you energy companies, and ask for a contract that uses new and less polluting energy sources.
For ex. Helsingin Energia has a one, ympäristöpennisähkö:
http://www2.helsinginenergia.fi/sahko/ymparistopennisahko.asp
Vattenfall has norppasähkö:
http://www.vattenfall.fi/oo/data/request.cfm?ID=FF2526D9-34C1-11D5-98EC00508BA25FA1&method=View

Ride a bike and use public transportation when you can.

And talk about it. If Jorma Ollila can, it can't be too hippie for anyone..

for more:
http://www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/whatyoucando/


Moving on to the next piece of political propaganda, this is mostly for finnish readers:

Voting.
We have parlamentary elections soon.
You should vote - why?
voting, even blank, demonstrates you give a shit about democracy.

Who should you vote for, or better, which party?
If you are relatively young, and from the capital area, i'm sorry, but there is just one party for you, that even mildly represents your interests.
I would say that out of the main parties of finland, there is just one with a 'strong' voter base made of our generation, the Greens. Most other parties are driving the interests of the aging, and still in power baby boomers. This generation is immense, will live longer, with more expensive health care and pensions than any generation before. They also have neglected to take care of this problem, and the bill will be ours to pay, unless somebody represents our interests, in time. Paradoxically, you would think that it would also be in the after-war generations' interests in guaranteeing their pensions and medical care, but...
The greens are also a predominantly urban party. So make sure that's where tax money allocations and political focus goes.
And lastly, if ecological issues (such as global warming) interest you, this is obviously the party.
http://www.vihreat.fi/ehdokkaat/helsinki

I am also moving to the cité U this week, finally!

My new address is

Niklas Saxen
Maison de la Norvège
Chambre 301
7 n boulevard Jourdan
75014 Paris
France