Many people seem to recognise the importance of conservig our material resources, and the large movement that has been kicking along will effective in accomplishing some success. However, we have only vaguely appreciated the importance of action and near-maximum efficiency as opposed to mere recognition of a problem and ways to counteract it. I insist that attention should be directed in the way of increasing our personal efficiency.

Green supermarket bags are great, however if peoples maximum efficiency is not taken advantage of, these plights of saviour are ony a mere contribution and willnot counteract the decrement on the world environment, only slow it down a little.

We can see our rainforests and bushland vanishing, our water going to waste, our waste garbage dumps piling up, our degradation of the ozone layer causing our skin to scorch, our rigorous farming and fishing, and the visible end of our coal and iron. More specific wastes are human effort, which go on every day through blundering, ill-directed and inefficient acts.

We can see and feel the waste of material things. Awkward, inefficient ways of fitting in with the environment are less visible, less tangible and vaguely appreciated. Even though our daily loss is from this source, which is the process of wasting materials on this earth, the result has stirred us deeply, while the other has moved us but a little. Our laziness decieves us.

Ama

A beautiful, pure young girl. Her skin resonates clearly with the light touch of gentle garden light, parted through tree branches and fig leaves. Her skin is a light olive, unauspicious and wondering. She is innocent and not enumbering, as she prances upon the smooth river stones that pocket the low reeds and carry her, providing passage, across to the alternate bank.

White linen contouring, in the warm fresh moving air she is Amaranth.

Ama for the Japanese meaning 'sea woman'