Some time ago, I became more aware of how my choices as a consumer have a real impact on the world around me, so Chris and I have set out to make some changes. We’ve been making relatively small, painless changes in our daily shopping habits, but yesterday we made a big change. We dumped [...]
credo: a better world, one phone call at a time
March 7th, 2010
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Tags: consumerism · social responsibility · sustainability · technology
south dakota legislators: the stupidest people on earth?
March 1st, 2010
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Ok, I apologize for the argumentum ad hominem–what may seem like a logical misstep or at least an ethical lapse in the second part of the post title above, but come on! This came across the wire today. I’ve pasted it below, but you can find it’s original context at Think Progress. I couldn’t believe [...]
Tags: politics · schooling · sustainability
i will not see an enemy
February 16th, 2010
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I recently started following “The Natural Life Magazine” Twitter stream and this came to me–a video clip of Julia “Butterfly” Hill talking about the importance of not letting what we are against define us. If you don’t remember Hill, she is an American environmentalist who spent over 700 days–from December 1997 to December 1999–sitting and [...]
Tags: activism · social responsibility · sustainability · video
