New year wishes

I always spend a bit of time around New Year’s Eve thinking over what the past year has brought, and what I’d like to happen in the next year. It’s a bit of planning, and day-dreaming, and hoping – best enjoyed with a glass of wine and like-minded friends So what are my hopes for 2009?

I hope Australian citizens can convince Kevin Rudd to take stronger action on climate change.

I hope the Great Barrier Reef stays ok.

I hope the farmers and everyone else in the Murray-Darling basin can sort out their water issues fairly.

I plan to make my home more eco-friendly – add some waterwise features, maybe solar panels if we can afford them.

I plan to make my office more eco-friendly – not sure how, but maybe getting a group together to work on it.

I plan to talk to more people about the urgency of climate change. Maybe I’ll pester some politicians in person – I’m quite hard to ignore!

And wouldn’t it be nice if everyone finally got it, if it just clicked in people’s heads that we’ve only got one planet to live on. We need to treat it better – if we wreck it, we haven’t really got anywhere else to go.

How about you? What do you hope to see in the new year? What do you plan to do about it?