Interview with Cate Blanchett

I keep bumping into this interview every place I go on the net. I don't agree with her positions, but I think it's great that she practices what she preaches.

Green before it was hip—she cites Al Gore and David de Rothschild as heroes and believes that leaf blowers “sum up everything that is wrong with the human race”—the couple are trying to make the ecological footprint of the home as small as possible, installing solar panels and even a filtration system that will allow them to drink their own wastewater.

If I were going to point to something that signifies the low point of humanity it would have to be Columbia University darling of the moment Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his cronies. Leaf blowers wouldn't figure in. Possibly because I was too lazy to use one when I had the chance. God put the leaves there for a reason, and it wasn't to watch me rake them up.