Are we animals or humans? What does the Baha’i Faith say about the nature of human beings and the difference between human beings and animals? I ask this question because back in college, the following view was very comforting to me: “Human beings are animals. Big-brained, language-using animals – but animals nonetheless.” I am not [...]
October 22, 2008, 4pm, Harvard Yard
[notes originally taken wearing gloves, edited two days later. my comments in brackets.]
An excerpt: “We are one people living on one planet. We have a few short years to make a dramatic change in the way we conduct global civilization. It is almost unimaginable that we could make a decision [...]
Tufts University, 6pm
You can’t understand what’s happening right now in America. We are living in a country that is only 4% of world’s population yet produces 25% of the world’s greenhouse gas, has 25% of the world’s prisons. Some think we have a disposable planet, disposable people.
A green economy must be strong enough to lift [...]
In “Make This Earth Day Your Last” over at WorldChanging, Alex Steffen and Sarah Rich forced me to struggle with my current attitudes about sustainability and systems change. I thought I would blog my process.
In summary: Gestures are not enough. What is required is a transformation of consciousness, and a united understanding of our [...]
new word: ubifarm. it will do, lacking anything better, to describe a loose set of ideas. the notion that a share of vegetables from a farm’s CSA (community supported agriculture) program could have its own blog. That gardens, farms and markets might have their own RSS feeds. My phone ought to tell me when arugula [...]
[Note: Most of this is notes of what Majora was saying. My comments are peppered throughout. Probably indistinguishably.] Lots of people. Seems to be a good mix of Ann Arbor environmental-type community members, School of Natural Resource/Environment students, and people who have moving from event to event as part of the Symposium.
MacArthur fellow Majora [...]
Hullo. We’ll still be shuffling things about over the next month or so, but it should be noted that we’re back. The most exciting news is that we’ve switched from Network Solutions to AISO green web hosting. This is a direct result of attending the regional sustainability seminar at Green Acre Bahá¡’á School in Eliot, [...]
This is my Majora Carter post. We’ll get to the “omg welcome back!” post soon. It’s being edited. I’m practicing saying what I mean in these posts, and sharing what is actually inside of me, which means they take a little longer to spit out.
So: Majora Carter. Words do not do her justice. She is [...]