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Question #1:
Hi Daphne, I know you're an activist for a Greener America. I just have a question for ya.. It may be silly but I just wasnt sure.. I live in a small town in MI and we dont have the option of having a recycle bin for someone to pick up when they do trash, Where should I be taking the recyclable materials?? I wanna make a change for our community and have everyone recycle.. So I just wasnt positive where to be takin it and making sure it is being taken care of properly..
Thanks so much.
Lindsay
Dear Lindsay,
Since I don't know the town you live in, here is some info on MI recycling (How great is google?). The following link is a page with information of recycling in each county. Pick your county and call the closest center that appears. You may have to drive a bit, so you can collect it and even offer to bring a neighbor's goods, that may inspire them, and go every two weeks or something.
http://www.michigan.gov/deq/0,1607,7-135-3585_4130---,00.html
and THIS page is a CLIMATE CHANGE CHECK SHEET I found! We should all print out and stick on the refrigerator.
Thanks so much for writing, asking is the only way we find out things!! Now you can tell others who have the same question.
Let us know how it goes!
Daphne
Question #2:
Hi Daphne, your contributions you are making to the planet are very commendable. My question is, have you been asked back to Melrose Place? It starts back this fall and two of the original cast members will be on it. I am sure you have a lot going on these days and I wasn't sure if you had any interest in seeing you back at 4616. I would definitely love to see you on there again.
With best wishes,
John
Hi John,
No I won't be there at the apartment building. If they ask me to go on for a guest star with a fun story line maybe I would. Doing Melrose Place was such an amazing time, and the show's success was a blast for us! I hope Thomas and Laura have fun doing this show, but it'll never be the same. :)
Daphne
Question #3:
In your film - which I loved and have just blogged appreciatively about, you credit your dad the philosopher for implanting the spark of curiosity that brought you to TED. Does Mom the Unitarian get some credit for that too? (I'm a philosopher with Unitarian leanings.) Thanks for your good work!
Phil
Dear Phil,
Ah! Yes, mom does get credit. Dad would say, "Your schoolyard is tiny Daphne, compared to our city, the planet, then the galaxy, then the Universe-which is infinite." Huh? But daddy, my school yard is really big. "No, it is smaller than the point of this needle." And then comes mom, "Everyone is the center of their own universe". When I said this out loud later in math class, "There are 17 centers of the Universe in this room!" no one knew what the hay I was talking about. You see Phil? This is why I feel comfortable and safe at TED. No one gives you weird looks. Finally a place that celebrates questions, and encourages human creativity--this is why I needed to make a movie. (Now, at snagfilms.com.)
Growing up Unitarian was good because it's open to all beliefs. On my mother's altar at the meeting house, there was a cross, a star of David, the yin/yang, the peace chalice, and E=mc2. After a life of looking around and asking questions; honoring nature, and in that, us, makes the most sense. The writings of Emerson, Thoreau, and Buddhism feel right to me.
Not sure what sense can be made of the fact that the daughter of two intellectual, non materialistic people, was possessed to go off to Hollywood at 17, but I know their outlooks have saved me more than once in all the years here.
Thanks for the blog, I had a look and really appreciate it!
Daphne