Here’s a confession. I am not a politically active person. Actually, it’s not really a confession because anyone who knows me would tell you that. It’s more of a confession to myself because I feel bad about it. Sometimes I don’t even vote if it’s not a presidential year. That hurt to write. Ok, moving on. The reason I’m bringing this up is that working on making small pro-environment changes in my everyday life and letting other people know about them in this blog has made me want to do SOMETHING out there in world of policy, a world I know nothing about. My first politically active thought was that I wanted to get involved in an advocacy group for public transportation in L.A. Not being a politically active type; I didn’t know where to start. I looked on the internet, and, being a very easily sidetracked researcher as well as a not politically active person, got mired down in all sorts of train enthusiast sites. Some of them are pretty cool by the way. Anyhoo, there were two people outside of Whole Foods the other day asking for people to join CALPIRG—CALPIRG whose current project is advocacy for public transportation in L.A.! I’ve never been so excited to be canvassed! Here’s the website in case anybody else is inclined to give them support. www.calpirg.org Incidentally, if you don’t live in CAL, many other states have PIRGS (public interest research groups), that, from what I can tell, do great work.
