We are collectively waiting. Corporations wait with huge coffers of cash (Apple, for instance, is sitting on $98 BILLION). The unemployment rate, officially, around 8.3% in February 2012, doesn’t include the long-term unemployed – we can guess that 10-15% of working-age people are sitting on the sidelines. Entire industries (construction, finance, and to some degree manufacturing) [...]
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On the sidelines
Posted in Community, Culture, Politics, tagged activism, culture, politics, social activism on March 29, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Saying no and saying yes
Posted in Politics, tagged activism, politics, social activism, sustainability on January 18, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The problem: Where to begin? Income inequality in America, crumbling infrastructure, corporations trying to wrest control of the Internet, Citizens United, global warming….pick your issue! The solution: Say no! —- and — Say yes to an alternative! I spent a lot of last year being outraged. Well, I’ve been outraged a lot since 2008, watching [...]
Power to the People – Let’s Turn this Country Around!
Posted in Culture, Food, Politics, tagged activism, change, community, culture, food, health, ideas, living simply, localvorism, money, personal growth, politics, post-consumerism, simple living, social activism, social consciousness, sustainability on October 24, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Let’s not wait for the government or (worse) corporations to save this country and give the unemployed something to do – let’s get into action ourselves! Some ideas to get us started: LifeSchool, BodyShop, EarthForces and S.O.S. – Save our Society. Let’s go!
Action leads to satisfaction – the power of incremental change
Posted in Culture, tagged activism, books, change, culture, politics, post-consumerism, social activism, sustainability on June 28, 2010 | 8 Comments »
In the face of big challenges, incremental change is the key. Awareness, willingness, into action – one step at a time!
Are we dead or just sleeping? A lament for America
Posted in Culture, tagged culture, politics, social activism on June 27, 2010 | 7 Comments »
When did we stop being alive? Doesn’t it seem like someone should have told us? Hey! Yo! You! You’re walking around, but you are dead. Most of my dreams (the very few I remember) are yawningly prosaic, focusing on minutiae from my daily life. But I had one big archetypal dream and it involved President [...]
It’s not just turtles swimming in a sea of oil
Posted in Culture, tagged social activism, sustainability on June 24, 2010 | 14 Comments »
I’d really like to just blame BP and be done with it. I mean, wouldn’t you? Because if you think about what the burning turtles and oil-soaked pelicans REALLY mean – well, it changes everything. I bought some housewarming gifts for my buddy last night. Among them were some glass storage jars – I want [...]
Someone’s in the kitchen with Diane (a whole lotta somethings, actually)
Posted in Culture, tagged cooking, creativity, food, localvorism, social activism on June 12, 2010 | 10 Comments »
I’m noticing that several streams are coming together for me and, like people at my parties, they are all ending up in the kitchen! – Localvorism: buying local foods both for environmental reasons and to move away from being part of the machine (hey I KNOW Farmer Nick, Eggland? Not so much….) – Slow Food movement [...]
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