Maybe we are. Don't we actively challenge established doctrines, policies, and institutions? Some of us might like to call ourselves the more positive-sounding "civil society advocates" -- which seems to be a label popping up at the Summit of the Americas now going on in Panama. Being a "civil society advocate" is positively tame and a helluvalot less aggressive than being … [Read more...] about Sustainability Doings: April 8, 2015 – “Dissidents, we?”
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Sustainability Doings, 3 February 2015: ‘It ain’t broke?!’
The system IS working?! In the last issue of Sustainability Doings, dated 1/5/15, I blithely asserted: "The system is broken. Everyone knows that." But then, bright and early on 1/6/15, Karen Henninger responded: . "I do not agree that the *system* is broken. I believe that understanding is a lack of understanding [of] the system."The system IS working … [Read more...] about Sustainability Doings, 3 February 2015: ‘It ain’t broke?!’
Sustainability Doings – 5 January 2015 – “Riddle”
How is capitalism like an elephant? The system is broken. Everyone knows that. But do you know that no one knows what te hell the system is? We may be missing the obvious, like the proverbial elephant in the room, that we’re blanking out to, as if it weren’t there or was invisible to us. Or perhaps each of us is touching on only a small part of the whole system from our … [Read more...] about Sustainability Doings – 5 January 2015 – “Riddle”
Sustainability Doings – 29 November 2014 – “You In – or You Out?”
Common question to poker players mulling over whether the hand they were dealt merits the risk of putting some of their hard-earned sheckels in the pot. But "You In — or You Out?" here refers to . . . well, it's probably easiest to just take a look at what the deal here is . . . Some Notable Doings This Week: Wednesday, 12/3/14, 7-9pm, at the Forks Township … [Read more...] about Sustainability Doings – 29 November 2014 – “You In – or You Out?”
Sustainability Doings – 10 November 2014 – “Words Abound, Ideas Scarce”
Words as hindrance to thinking . . . We seem to be overrun by Madison-Avenue-push-button-unthinking-out-of-context-Pavlovian-branding words that get us to react often in ways that are inimical to our own interests. They don't spend all those big bucks on campaign advertising without a whole cache of potent words to draw upon, do they? Words and ideas and thinking and … [Read more...] about Sustainability Doings – 10 November 2014 – “Words Abound, Ideas Scarce”
Martin Boksenbaum: ‘Climatezilla meets Pogo and Charlie Brown on Earth Day’
Earth Day. Mother Earth Day. Well, Earth begat us. We exist on it. We are of it, shaped by it. It nurtures us, provides for our needs, sustains us. It would be a flight of fancy to think we could exist without it and its bounty. Ah, Mother Earth, indeed! But enter Climatezilla to threaten us and life on planet Earth with climate change running amok. Ice caps melting, sea … [Read more...] about Martin Boksenbaum: ‘Climatezilla meets Pogo and Charlie Brown on Earth Day’
Sustainability Doings – 27 January 2014
"Housing" Some questions we might raise about this basic necessity: Do all people have access to decent shelter? Is "owning" your own home miring you in debt? Does the place you live in have a small carbon footprint? Would alternative arrangements, like cohousing and land trusts, be more manageable and provide a better sense of home and of community, a better quality of life? … [Read more...] about Sustainability Doings – 27 January 2014
Knock, knock!
Who's that knocking at my door on January 4, 2014, this day of perihelion 2014? Whipping around the Sun so fast on this old Earth of ours it should knock our socks off. 67,800 mph, about. But it doesn't knock our socks off, does it? What else is happening that we're not aware of because we're just being carried along, just part of the inertial system? And how in blazes are … [Read more...] about Knock, knock!
Sustainability Doings – 4 January 2014
"Knock, knock!" Who's that knocking at my door on January 4, 2014, this day of perihelion 2014? Whipping around the Sun so fast on this old Earth of ours it should knock our socks off. 67,800 mph, about. But it doesn't knock our socks off, does it. What else is happening that we're not aware of because we're just being carried along, just part of the inertial system? And how … [Read more...] about Sustainability Doings – 4 January 2014