Trying to eat less and less meat seems like a great idea, right? Who can without remorse and regret eat an animal that was probably born, raised and killed for the sole purpose of being eaten. Sounds a bit amoral and just ethically incorrect, at least in my opinion. There are health reasons why one…
City of Quartz – LA After pulling together a group of admired friends and family reading a specific book – City of Quartz, by Mike Davis – and watching, listening to some current events, my response to the book has changed. At first, I expressed my angst while reading that I had hard time accepting…
Contemporary author / journalist, Elizabeth Kolbert – Wikipedia, who wrote the The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History – Wikipedia, is out with a new book Climate Change A to Z – H is for Hope – Not yet published (Random House). I have not read either book yet, but both are now added to the…
Today’s Daily Stoic had a great set of points and some life choices to think about. There were two key points for me: first, get ready for whatever life throws at you – preparation and anticipation help make better decisions, choices on how to respond; two, how we respond equals who we are and who…
In a recent article published in a newly found source, AdBusters (about), asceticism was introduced in a new format – mental, not physical, to live a more balanced life. This post is highly related and correlated with an earlier post on AdBusters – “Taking Degrowth Seriously“. I strongly believe like this second post, however, that…
Too often environmental decisions are pitched and framed within a binary construct – an either / or. What if that framing was disingenuous or a simple error in trying too hard to simplify things that are not simple. Take ocean-going big ships. They are essential to move goods and commodities around the world from where…
