Last week I wrote a bit about resilience, what it means, and why people are talking about it so much these days. If you’re anything like me, you nodded, said “I get it, I get it…” and immediately moved on to the next obvious question: “What makes a community resilient?” According to the Transition ...
Welcome to the next installment of Transition Friday. Transition Tuesday would be nice and alliterative, but would require me to get my act together on Tuesdays, which isn’t going to happen. If sustainability was the buzzword for 2009, resilience is it for 2010. That was my thought at the beginning of the year, and ...
One of the (too many) books I’ve been reading lately is The Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins. I read it as part of the Hyperlocavore book club, which ...
Greenwash: the practice of companies disingenuously spinning their products and policies as environmentally friendly, such as by presenting cost cuts as reductions in use of resources. It is a deceptive use of green PR or green marketing. (Taken from the Wikipedia entry.) I got a letter in the mail from my mom the other ...
Sometimes I wear myself out worrying about the big picture. I know I'm not the only one who does this. Just last week, Psychologists for Social Responsibility warned that if we do not see dramatic political action on climate change by the end of this year, there is a risk that ...
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 ...
Every Monday, a whole host of tweets go out under the tag #EcoMonday, #MeatlessMonday and #MeatFreeMonday. In #EcoMonday, people tweet what they're reading, recommend other Twitter users to follow, and have conversations about sustainability, climate change, green living, and everything else "eco." Tweeters in #MeatlessMonday and #MeatFreeMonday choose to eat ...
What makes for a "good week" in sustainability news? Lots of news? A week more or less devoid of major crises? Big breakthroughs in science and technology? Maybe it's just a week of active and constructive dialogue about sustainability and the big picture? This week was definitely the latter. In Living Sustainably in the ...
The other day I stumbled across this interesting diagram titled with two of my favorite words: Sustainable Balance. I spend a lot of time thinking about what sustainable means, and what balance means, and why I often feel as if I am alone in being drawn to (*cough obsessed with cough*) these two words.
So I’ve been gone. For a long, long time. But I promise that I have a good reason – reasons, actually. We did get our internet back after about a week of intermittent outages. Then, we found out my boyfriend was deploying. He’s in the Army, which is how we ended up ...
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