Gracious living that's light on the earth
My effort to use less doesn’t always come easily. As a product of my own over-consuming and unconscious society, I’m constantly forced to bring more awareness to my actions to avoid the hyper-consumption of the industrial economy. This is made no easier by being immersed in a culture that constantly tells me to… Take the easy way out Live the…
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It’s a tough act to achieve or even to attempt but, following the success of the documentary film No Impact Man, YES! Magazine has launched a No Impact Week, which is happening now. If I was a better blogger, I would’ve let you know about it before it started so you could gear up for a whole lot of low-carbon…
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I can’t think of any moms I know (and even those I don’t) who would sprinkle a dose of poison on her kid’s food. I can’t think of any who would blow mercury particulates in her kid’s face. Nor any who would wish for her child a lower standard of living in the future than she now enjoys. Who does?…
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For a couple of years now we’ve been hearing about social enterprises, social capital and social networking. With so many of us on social websites like Facebook and Twitter, sharing things in common with old friends and new, both in-the-flesh and virtual, is now the norm. It’s as everyday as e-mail. The social network While there’s definitely some valid criticisms…
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Forgive my few weeks absence from The List. I’ve been catching up on loads of work at Transition Voice, getting the kids off to school, and preparing for a busy fall season in the Transition Town group I help co-lead. But I figure, what with rogue earthquakes kicking up in odd locations and hurricane season dead upon us, it’s time…
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The debt debate out of Washington exhibited many qualities. But sanity wasn’t among them. In fact, the smart money says that enacting the spending cuts called for in the deal between President Obama and Congressional Republicans will pull money from the economy, kill jobs, stop orders for goods and otherwise hamstring an already flogged economy. At the same time, the…
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