quick climate change post

This is yet another unrelated Italy blog (bear with me!) Although a mighty important blog at that!
So this week has been the week of action for hundreds of universities across the United States and even internationally! Many great things have been happening including screenings of An Inconvenient Truth and even a photo petition which my Campus Climate Challenge buddies over at Elon University (and at several other campuses of course) have taken individual pictures of themselves with a caption telling Congress to "Step it up!" and reduce carbon emissions. You can read/see more about the actions here (there's even a picture of me and Christine from December!), here, and here! This last link is actually all the photos from the photo petition, which I think is the best idea ever! It actually shows the people and faces behind the petition... all students (either high school or college) trying to make a difference! Hooray for the youth movement!!!
I even had my friends here take some pictures!

Jackie

Anthony

Kristen

Margaux

last but not least, Meg

We are all on the photo petition, along with countless others! Tonight Paris even turned the lights of the Eiffel tower off for 5 minutes, and cities/homes/schools/etc are turning their lights off to make a statement against global warming. Tomorrow the UN is releasing a climate change report... and I'm pretty sure I know exactly what it's going to say. Maybe it will start things rolling, as if everything else hasn't been enough as is.
If only the rest of the world, mainly the United States, could follow Europe's example (everything here in Italy is incredible in regards to their energy conservation... don't worry I will have another post on that sometime soon), our energy consumption could decrease soo much.. Speaking of Europe's example...
On another note, I made a fabulous dinner tonight of a recipe that my mom makes: pasta, ricotta and fontina cheese, spinach (we substituted arucola), bacon (we used pancetta), onions, and roasted pine nuts and walnuts. I came out really really well. Then we made nutella brownies which were divine.
As for the rest of the weekend, a group of us are going to Sienna for the day on Saturday, and I'm homeworking tomorrow and Sunday.
Ciao!