I just finished separating the Sunday San Francisco Chronicle into two piles of equal height. The sections I read, and the other stuff, what I will not read. In the ‘will not read pile’ are mostly ad booklets for various advertisers. In France, the Sunday papers are a tenth of the size of their American [...]
Archive for September, 2007
The Sunday Paper
Posted in Activism, French Culture, tagged American culture, boycott, eco-sin, ecopsychology, French culture, saving trees, Sunday paper, waste on September 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Win Win
Posted in Solutions, tagged cleaning products, consciousness, eco-sins, economics, ecopsychology, environment, green living, health, home cleaning products, household products, human behavior, Lynette Evans, planet, pollution, San Francisco Chronicle, toxic on September 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Lynette Evans wrote a great article, ‘Save the Money by Saving the Planet’, about the win win strategy of buying natural cleaning products instead of the usual commercial paraphernalia. Her maths are pretty convincing:
Commercial products: Windex Original, $4.39; Pine-Sol Cleaner, $4.69; Kaboom Shower Tub & Tile Cleaner, $5.69; Chlorox Disinfecting Wipes, $6.19; Formula 409 All [...]
Follow Up and Priorities
Posted in Green Girl Wannabe, Solutions, tagged consciousness, eco-sin, ecopsychology, green living, human behavior, infrastructure on September 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Two days ago, I started making a list for my personal green infrastructure. List of things I need to buy, and do, to get myself set up for easy green living. The list has been floating around in my head. It pops up, whenever I have an idle moment, and begs for action. So far, [...]
Havel’s ‘Moral Footprint’
Posted in Green Psychology, Solutions, tagged Al Gore, buddhism, consciousness, eco-sins, ecological training, ecopsychology, environment, ethics, Global warming, green living, inconvenient truth, moral footprint, nature, New York Times, personal action, policy, responsibility, sustainability, Vaclav Havel on September 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Now is payback time
Great article from Vaclav Havel in the New York Times yesterday. He was able to put in words what I have been feeling for a long time. ‘Maybe we should start considering our sojourn on earth as a loan. There can be no doubt that for the past hundred years at least, [...]
Green Infrastructure
Posted in Life With Green Guru, Solutions, tagged clothesline, compost, ecopsychology, green building, green infrastructure, green living, green solutions, hybrid cars, inconvenient truth, junk mail on September 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
If only I spent the time, setting up the right kind of personal green infrastructure, I would not be struggling so much everyday. Many times, when I fail on my promises, it’s because I am not set up well, to begin with. I look at Green Guru and I see how much ground work he [...]
Why Democracy?
Posted in Blogging, tagged Activism, bloggers, democracy, films on September 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This is a great project. Please check it out:
http://www.whydemocracy.net/
Doggy Bag
Posted in American Culture, Food, tagged American society, carbon footprint, consciousness, doggy bag, eating habits, eco-sins, super size, sustainability, waste on September 26, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Once a week, Prad and I go out to dinner to Il Fornaio, our favorite Italian eatery in town. Last time, we went with the children. Everybody was hungry, and we forgot our habit of splitting every order in half. We ended dinner with most of our plates still half full. And a doggy bag [...]
In My House
Posted in Climate Research, Green Girl Wannabe, tagged Al Gore, climate change, data, ecopsychology, experts, Global warming, impact, insight, IPCC, nature, prehistoric, psychology, shelter, world on September 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
When I am inside my house, I feel protected and safe. Almost invincible. Nothing can get to me. I just thought of that, late last night, as I was reading the results from the International Panel on Climate Change Working Group II report on, ‘Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability’. Scary stuff. Yet, all these disastrous [...]
Junk Mail
Posted in Solutions, tagged consciousness, eco-sin, ecopsychology, Green Dimes, green living, green solutions, junk mail, paper, saving trees, waste on September 25, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Today, in my mailbox: 1) Cabelas Deer Hunting catalog, a remnant of my days as a performance artist, when I was looking for a camouflage outfit; 2) Garnet Hill clothing and home decor catalog, addressed to my husband’s ex, and still coming to our house; 3) Van Dyke’s taxidermy catalog, from the times when I [...]
Daily Trips
Posted in Food, Life With Green Guru, Solutions, tagged bike lanes, Bogota car ban, city green initiatives, driving, eco-sins, ecopsychology, gas prices, Global warming, green living, green solutions, greenhouse gas emissions, human behavior, policy, shopping, Whole Foods on September 25, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Whole Foods is as much a social place, as a grocery store. I will seize any excuse to go there, just to break the monotony of a whole day spent working at home. Since I work from home everyday, that pretty much means daily trips to WF. Green Guru thinks I am not being efficient. [...]
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