My good friend Christine has been looking for a present, for me. She was just at Anthropologie, my favorite store, but could not find anything. That’s fine, I tell her, I do not need, do not want anything. The urge has died. My wavering green conscience from a few months ago has grown strong now, [...]
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From Shopaholic to Eco-Worrier
Posted in Green Girl Wannabe, tagged climate change, eco-psychology, Global warming, green living, Green Psychology, consciousness, green conscience, buddhism, consumerism, shopaholic on February 7, 2008 | 20 Comments »
16 Psychological Barriers to Solving Global Warming
Posted in Green Psychology, tagged buddhism, climate change, consciousness, environment, global warming solutions, green living, Green Psychology, zen meditation on December 6, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Yesterday, I reported on my not so green moment, when I chose to drive instead of riding my bike. And I went through the meditative exercise of retracing my thoughts during those decisive seconds. Buried in that bag of thoughts, are some personal truths about why my actions do not match my green thoughts and [...]
Individual Psychology and Climate Change
Posted in Daily Footprint Project, tagged buddhism, climate change, climate fight, cognitive psychology, consciousness, DotEarth, environmental footprint, environmental policy, Global warming, Green Psychology, human behavior, zen meditation on December 5, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Day 28 of Daily Footprint Project. Cold, and rainy. I had to go out twice, once to a doctor’s appointment, and then to the pool. Both outings in the five miles range, a perfect ‘bike it’ distance. ‘Pervenche‘ was waiting, and I had made such a big deal of looking for [...]
The Danger of Perfection
Posted in Green Girl Wannabe, tagged green living, ecopsychology, buddhism on October 25, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I get so much from the people who comment on my blog. They help me with blind spots. Darmok and Nadine, both struck me with the gentle ways in which they approach their greening process. I have gotten caught in the trap of looking at all I do not do, rather than appreciating the many [...]
Overwhelmed
Posted in Blogging, Green Girl Wannabe, tagged Blog Action Day, buddhism, David Middlebrook, ecopsychology, environment, Global warming, green solutions, human behavior on October 17, 2007 | 3 Comments »
It’s hitting me. Again. This feeling of being overwhelmed. By the mass of information coming at me. Green facts, and comments on not so green facts. It seems that everyone’s got things to say, to report, an initiative they are working on, participating in, a cool article they found, that somebody else wrote. There is [...]
The Same Air
Posted in Green Girl Wannabe, Social Networks, tagged biology, boundaries, buddhism, consciousness, ecopsychology, meditation, nature, perception, systems on October 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Talking about ‘I’ versus ‘Us’, Gabriel Halpern, my yoga teacher from way back, used to have us meditate on the fact that we are all breathing the same air. I remember my first reaction to be one of disgust. You mean, I am actually taking in some of the air exhaled by the [...]
Lookout
Posted in Zen Moments, tagged buddhism, consciousness, ecopsychology, lookout, meditation, stewartship, thoughts, zen on October 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
‘In the Clouds, Sitting Watch Over Paradise‘, the front page article in yesterday’s New York Times, introduced me to the fascinating world of Mike Gates, one of the remaining 800 lookouts in the United States. Mr. Gates lives high up in a shack atop the mountain. His job is to spend most of his waking [...]
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, [...]
Wanting
Posted in Zen Moments, tagged buddhism, consciousness, consumerism, ecopsychology, emergency, Global warming, No Impact Man, spiritual, wanting, zen on August 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I am in an introspective mood today. Where does the restlessness I feel come from? My body says it lies within the pit of my stomach. Something does not agree with me, and I can’t quite tell. This is a familiar feeling. I wish I could be more content, more often, with just the [...]
Green, Mindful, Time
Posted in Zen Moments, tagged buddhism, environment, mindfulness, zen on August 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Becoming green requires being mindful. Being mindful requires time. I need to not clutter my days with so many activities.
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