Miel de Maple

Now everybody is worried about being ‘eco-friendy’, ‘organic’, ’sustainable’ or, at least, ’energy efficient ‘. “Organic cotton fabrics” in jeans  and coffee packaged in recycled paper remind me two things: that Earth might be threatening our survival after a few hundred years of thoughtless living and more importantly, that ‘green-friendly’ stuff can produce broader margins of added value.

You can be ‘hip’ and green by drinking Starbuck’s coffee, driving an hybrid car or applying yourself all-organic and natural make-up which is expensive. But you can still be green without spending and help improve the quality of life of a bunch of people that doesn’t exist yet.

These are 4 small things I’ve done:

• Use public transportation instead of driving: use the extra time to read, think or meet your life’s love.
• Turn off  lights or electronic devices you are not using. Even better if you unplug them!
• Print on both sides of paper. Extra points for printing two pages per sheet.
• Plant a tree or take care of a plant. Besides, a plant in your house can add a nice touch to it.

Anyway, do whatever you feel to. With us or without, Earth is still gonna spin for a while.

It was the calm Sunday night of a thrilling weekend when my best friend said: we can have italian or we can meet these place called Ihop, US-like stuff.

I was really hungry so I told him: ‘Ihop’. Also the best answer to the question: where you should have dinner in order to feel a bothersome fullness, uncomfortable  enought to keep you awake until 4am?

We had a giant hamburger and enough fries and Coca-Cola to supply the daily caloric intake of four sailors.

I didn’t mind until bedtime when I started  feeling  a half-soul / half-physical discomfort.  I then remembered Thomas Hobbes saying:

“…cold doth in the same manner generate fear in those that sleep, and causeth them to dream of ghosts, and to have phantasms of horror and danger.”

My advice? Believe English philosophers  and your parents when they say you will have a  ’disturbed repose’ if you eat tons of food before bedtime.