So I just watched my interview on local access TV. The UI7 news! Exciting, student and local content, brought to you by broadcast journalism students.

Did you know it existed? That makes two of us.

It’s a weird experience seeing myself on TV, even if my roommates and I are the only ones watching. It’s kind of like looking in a mirror and talking to yourself. But since it’s local access, it’s like talking to yourself with corks stuffed in your ears to garble the sound. And someone threw up on the mirror.

Actually, as it was my first time watching the channel seven student news thing, I wasn’t totally bothered by their shoe-string production quality.

I LOVE THEIR SHOE-STRING PRODUCTION QUALITY!

You should totally take the time to watch the channel 7 stuff. This shit is hilarious. One of the stories before the one I was in froze and the “anchor” looked totally pissed when the camera was forced to cut back to her. I don’t like watching nightly news programs without national stories, because they’re stupid. But amateur nightly news programs are hilarious. Check it out.

I also was contacted by somebody in ART 250, which I think is “Video with Writing” about interviewing me for something he’s doing. Like a documentary about environmental issues. So Randy and I are going to sit down with that guy tonight. It feels cool that people give a shit about this whole recycling business we started, especially since it is cool.

I’m still waiting for your call, News-Gazette.

So you might know this (as my frequent readers are my clients a lot of the time) but I’m a business man. And I don’t mean I’m majoring in business, I mean I have a business. I started a little recycling collections service with my roommate, Randy and his Buick. It’s a good little business that I don’t make much money off (sign up today!) but it’s pretty cool.

We pick up people’s recycling once a week from their door and then sort it and take it out to a recycling joint. People pay us a pittance to do this for them, and we like doing it anyway.

I’m just blogging about it because I a) needed to post and b) like the free advertising (email GoGreeninco@gmail.com with questions or to sign up!).

Side Note: I briefly wrestled with whether or not writing about my business was selling out, but then decided that first, my business is a part of who I am, and so it fits the overall theme of my blog; and second, it’s not possible for a blog to sell out.

I’m writing about it because I was just interviewed about it earlier today by a U of I student who’ll be editing all my curse words out and showing it on the local station (channel 7, I think, but who knows for sure). And she said, people don’t think you can recycle on campus, and I’m one of the options that proves them wrong.

I think it’s really cool to do this, because I sit on my ass a lot. I like working. I like the planet. I’m actually not in it for the money (though the money is nice). I love the planet.

Part of why I started the business was because over winter break I watched the sun rise with my friends, Mitch and Nick, and Mitch (who was still drunk at the time) told Nick and I that “everyone needs to realize that they’ve destroyed beauty.” As I looked over the subdivision that stands where a prairie used to be, I kind of got what he meant.

And there’s a lot of people who seem to think that the world’s problems are too big to do anything about. And that irritates me to no end. There’s too much that can be done to do nothing. You want to help the planet? Buy energy efficient bulbs, start collecting your recycling (or pay me to), and stand up for something.

Not that long ago, I spent a lot of effort trying to help a counter protest effort with the one thing I’m marginally good at, writing. I don’t know how much good I did, but I do know that I was deeply moved by the responses that I got, and the lengths to which people of my own generation were willing to act on their convictions.

Anyways, I started a recycling company so that Mitch could have a little better world, and I could feel like I was doing something (sign up today, and join the facebook groupGo Green Inco!).