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Stop Walking Backwards!
The way our world is going now, Earth will probably self destruct in the next twenty years. Global Warming will flood crops causing starvation. Oil will run out and we will still be dependent on it. War will break out over an issue like invading other countries to try and fix things. Not a pretty future, right? Well, our blog is devoted to attempting to prevent that. Here’s how we do it:
- No fluff: We package up important information and relay it to you in a simple but detailed way. No extra fluff, only the good stuff.
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Let’s stop walking backwards and start marching on to a better future!
What Rika’s Doing
I won National Novel Writing Month!



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The Nearby Future started on January 13, 2008

wow!
Wow what, Sky?
yea what are we wowing at?
Hey! I agree with the points you made. We need to start to step up! I was browsing through a bunch of green websites and blogs and I came across yours and found it very interesting. There are a bunch of others I like too, like the daily green, ecorazzi and earthlab.com. I especially like EarthLab.com’s carbon calculator (http://www.earthlab.com/signupprofile/). I find it really easy to use (it doesn’t make me feel guilty after I take it). Are there any others you would recommend? Can you drop me a link to your favorites (let me know if they are the same as mine).
oh wow! i went to that earth lab and my ECP score was 751..is that bad? I know nothing about the environment ..i never really cared either and will probably never become like Rika but it sounded fun
Adrian- I really like http://www.thegreenguide.com, and The Green Guide magazine. As for blogs, I don’t really have a favorite. I’m glad you found our blog interesting, and thanks for commenting!
Where is the link to the Staff page?? Like where it tells about all of us…?
Oh, that. I accidentally deleted it the other day when I was trying to delete the ‘contact us’ page instead, and now I can’t the backup version that is on the same document as all of PLOTG’s missing articles
We had a staff page?
Well it was the ‘About’ page and it had a list of all the staff members
Oh I don’t remember it, but I’m sure I’ve seen it.(Well not lately if it’s missing of course.)
So… Sky never came back?
She might’ve come back, but decided that we were too insane and swore to never comment again. If I were her and read one of your random comments, I would have run and never looked back.
Not funny.
Wait, so who is All of the Above??
The one staff member that keeps changing their name.
Oh. Are you serious?? I dont keep track of all this stuff…youre gonna have to like make a list or something…
or “All of the Above” please stop changing your name!! I think thats a better solution
oh brother
Nobody gets it? What name am I picking? All of the Above? As in I won’t stop changing my name.
no I got it I just thought it was retardrd, you can’t even make up your mind on what split personality you wanna be.
Wow. Take a chill pill. It was a joke. As in laughter. You know, the human emotional response to something they find entertaining?
And you spelled retarded wrong.
yea I know I always forget to re-read my comments; to make sure i have no typos in them, and it’s a simple mistake the r is right next to the e.
I know where the keys on a keyboard are. I mess up when I type all the time.
it’s an easy mistake to make
Rika the post is missing…at least on my cp.
… Rika, cyber-hold me back. Haha.
Spontaneous hold-backs. Solid Comedic Gold.
um….ok. interesting….not entertaining tho. kinda like cable…..
No, you had to be there. The looks on people’s faces when you make someone hold you back from them. Solid. Comedic. Gold.
Stupid raisins! Get out of my cookies!
Sorry, the only cookies we have left in the house are oatmeal raisin.
So now it’s not just ‘comedic gold’, or ‘gold’? It’s been updated to ’solid comedic gold’? When did I miss the memo?
It seems like you miss a lot of memos.
Well, I just combined ’solid gold’ with ‘comedic gold,’ thus arriving at ‘Sold Comedic Gold.’
(We’re still trying to uncover the secret behind the sudden capitalization…)
And do you have to type whatever your thinking? ‘Cause I’m sure that oatmeal comment could have been left out…
And you’d call me prettier a LOT more if you typed EVERYTHING you thought.
And, on a side note, add me on myspace, go onto mine, then add JT. Plz. Oh, yes. I just said Plz.
Then again, JT probably would not be a very good idea… Scratch that last comment.
And you missed the memo whenever it went out, apparently. Duh, Rika! Get with the el program!
I need to get on the memo list. What’s with the half spansih comments? And I think you added capitalization because you always get mad when other people steal your catch phrases. And I never called you pretty! That was all Autumn!
What does capitalization have to do with catch phrase theft anger?
wow im right with you
Oh? You think I’m pretty as well?
Well, although it must be exceedingly difficult to visualize me based off a few comments based, for the most part, on catch phrases, myspace, and jokes. But as long as it’s established that I can make that good of an impression without even making myself visible…
I messed up. I had to leave my computer mid-comment, so that makes little to no sense. Sorry, ya’ll.
You do know that you spelled “y’all” wrong, right? i like texas:)