I have decided that this year, for the first time ever, I will be participating in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). I first heard about NaNoWriMo during my senior year of college. For various reasons that often resembled excuses, I did not sign up that year, nor have I any year since. But no more…
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Is the Climate Justice Fast hunger strike extremism?
I have been a bit absent this week, pondering the questions posed in my last post, as well as the fascinating discussion going on over at Worldchanging in the comments of Transition Towns Or Bright Green Cities? I now seem to have arrived at a temporary peace within myself, even in the midst of trollish…
A Bright Green Crisis of Faith
I find myself in a momentary crisis of faith. I don’t speak of this in terms of religious faith, and maybe it’s not faith at all. Perhaps a “deficit of optimism” would be a better way to describe it. Last weekend it rolled in via the blasting of Coal River Mountain, and poll numbers indicating…
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Five Things NaNoWriMo Teaches Us About Sustainability
I have decided that this year, for the first time ever, I will be participating in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). I first heard about NaNoWriMo during my senior year of college. For various reasons that often resembled excuses, I did not sign up that year, nor have I any year since. But no more…
Is the Climate Justice Fast hunger strike extremism?
I have been a bit absent this week, pondering the questions posed in my last post, as well as the fascinating discussion going on over at Worldchanging in the comments of Transition Towns Or Bright Green Cities? I now seem to have arrived at a temporary peace within myself, even in the midst of trollish…
A Bright Green Crisis of Faith
I find myself in a momentary crisis of faith. I don’t speak of this in terms of religious faith, and maybe it’s not faith at all. Perhaps a “deficit of optimism” would be a better way to describe it. Last weekend it rolled in via the blasting of Coal River Mountain, and poll numbers indicating…
