On the second day of the Daily Footprint Project, my attention is drawn to a single plastic bag. I inherited it when I bought the prepackaged red organic grapes at Whole Foods. We have eaten all the grapes. Now, what to do with the bag? It has holes in it for airing [...]
Archive for October, 2007
What To Do With Plastic Bag?
Posted in Daily Footprint Project, tagged recycling, environment, pelagic plastics, ocean pollution, environmental impact, personal footprint, plastic pollution, food chain on October 31, 2007 | 6 Comments »
It’s Halloween, and La Marguerite is Going Groovy Green
Posted in American Culture, tagged American culture, consumerism, Green Psychology, Halloween, human behavior on October 31, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Please check my new post on Groovy Green:
‘Halloween Horror‘
Halloween is not just about scaring people off. Once you start looking at it with a green lens, it is also pretty horrifying.
Day 1 of Daily Footprint Project
Posted in Daily Footprint Project, Food, tagged carbon footprint, ecological footprint, environment, green living, Green Psychology, personal footprint on October 30, 2007 | 11 Comments »
This is not a meal.
Although it could very well be. No, this is the picture of all the food waste that made its way to the garbage last night, on Day 1 of the Daily Footprint Project. Two day old wilted salad with romaine and radishes. One third uneaten steak from Catherine’s dinner. [...]
‘My Life with Car’, a BlogAct by Cass Nevada
Posted in Activism, tagged Activism, alternative transportation, blogacts, car, consciousness, green living, small steps on October 30, 2007 | 3 Comments »
It is my pleasure to introduce Cass Nevada, my new guest in the BlogActs Series. Cass was one of the very first commenters on this blog, and over the months, has become a long distance friend and faithful supporter. Cass always surprises me with the depth of her writings. I feel so zen whenever I [...]
La Marguerite in Environmental Graffiti (4)
Posted in Environmental Graffiti, tagged Berkeley, solar on October 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Link to my post in Environmental Graffiti, on Berkeley going all solar:
‘Berkeley’s Solar Revolution‘
All those brilliant, radical minds, always working towards serving the people . . .
The World Needs Some of That Gypsy Spirit
Posted in American Culture, tagged American culture, climate change solutions, Global warming, Green Psychology, Gypsy Caravan, human behavior, society on October 29, 2007 | 4 Comments »
One hundred ten minutes. For one hundred ten minutes, I was transported into gypsy magic, thanks to Gypsy Caravan, the new movie about the Roman people. So moved I was by their spirit, that I came out of the movie wanting to sing, and dance, and share the joy I felt from them.
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La Marguerite in Environmental Graffiti (3)
Posted in Environmental Graffiti, tagged climate change, environmental education, science education on October 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Link to my post in Environmental Graffiti, this week:
‘Science? What’s That?‘
Inspired by a recent article in the San Francisco Chronicle. First nature, now science . . . We are preparing ourselves for a future of young people totally unequipped to deal with the challenges ahead of us.
Knowing Where We Belong
Posted in Green Psychology, tagged ecology, Green Psychology, nature, Southern California, wildfires on October 28, 2007 | 3 Comments »
With the Southern California wildfires, there has been a lot of talk about people building houses where they shouldn’t. Carl Pope, from the Sierra Club has a great post on the subject in the Huffington post. There is also a very well researched article in today’s San Francisco Chronicle, which I will quote from: [...]
Setting up ‘My Daily Footprint’ Project
Posted in Daily Footprint Project, tagged carbon calculator, environmental impact, personal footprint on October 28, 2007 | 31 Comments »
I spent this week thinking about what would make sense for the daily footprint project. Here is what I decided:
to make things as simple as possible
yet be as detailed and accurate as possible
to make it easy for anyone else to replicate the experiment
to document with photos whenever applicable
The 6 main categories of impact I will [...]
The Power of Images
Posted in Communication Strategies, tagged environment, Green Psychology, human behavior, ocean pollution, plastics, Synthetic Sea, Whole Foods on October 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The bags again, forgotten. After a sleepless night, I figure I can cut myself some slack. ‘Paper of Plastic?’. Images of the ‘Synthetic Sea’ flashing, again. I’ll go for paper. Better cut down a tree, than fill up the oceans with plastic bits masquerading as plankton. Plus, I figure I can always use up [...]
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