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Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
A friend of mine asked about Wendell Berry recently and I thought I'd post a poem that seems to be classic Wendell Berry for him and in relation to the upcoming event on March 1st with Wendell Berry a...
Saturday, 21 February 2009
An Open Letter From Wendell Berry and Bill McKibben on Coal and Civil Disobedience
There are moments in a nation's -- and a planet's -- history when it may be necessary for some to break the law in order to bear witness to an evil, bring it to wider attention, and push for its corre...
Saturday, 21 February 2009
Artists for the Climate: A night with Wendell Berry, McKibben and Speth
Taking advantage of a rare opportunity, Janel and I are planning to attend an event locally on March 1st, which will feature both Wendell Berry and Bill McKibben. And Gus Speth, but I don't know anyth...
Saturday, 21 February 2009
Interesting metaphors
My sister sent me a link this morning to an article about a guy who does corporate dumpster diving and recycles/sells the electronics he finds. He used an interesting metaphor and it reminded me of so...
Friday, 06 February 2009
McKibben: Green church
Bill McKibben describes a program run by Vineyard Boise -- the Garden O'Feedin -- in a recent edition of Plenty Magazine, and it reminded me of some of the research we did for our green sunday s...
Monday, 06 October 2008
Putting the car in carnivore
I filled up with biodiesel after work today and on my way out the door this morning I saw the local community paper on the lawn with a front page article about the biodiesel co-op. I had been under ...
Thursday, 04 September 2008
The story of stuff
I just came across this video. It's an entertaining journey through the life cycle of "stuff" and worth the watch. It is 20 minutes long, but it's fascinating and very well done. ...
Monday, 07 July 2008
Green Shift (from Canada's Liberal Party)
My brother-in-law was talking Canadian politics last night and he told me about the Liberal Party's "Green Shift" plan. He said it appears to be the defining issue so far for the nex...
Saturday, 28 June 2008
Green Sunday School: Consumption
A group of us have been leading a "Green Sunday School" class at church for a number of weeks and last Sunday was the day for a friend and I. I did a short introduction and Brian selected a few passa...
Thursday, 01 May 2008
Jumping on the biodiesel bandwagon
A friend and I got quoted (barely) in the local paper after attending the biodiesel co-op meeting a few weeks ago. I was pleased that despite the brevity of the quote, they got it right -- my main in...
Tuesday, 25 March 2008
Christian freegans on Oprah
UPDATED: 3/10/08 Youtube video of the segment added. The executive director where I work told me that there were some freegans featured on Oprah the other day (which may have helped convince one o...
Friday, 29 February 2008
The co-op is dead! Long live the co-op? Biodiesel from WVO
I just found out this morning that our biodiesel co-op is disbanding. Among other things, partly due to the recent studies and concerns about biofuels from virgin food products. To soften the blow,...
Thursday, 28 February 2008
Put the eco back in economy
George W. Bush famously asked USians to go shopping after 9/11 to battle the terrorists by fortifying the economy in the wake of the attacks...a strategy that was not original in concept but was star...
Tuesday, 05 February 2008
Beyond Dumpster Diving: Urban Hunting and Roadkill Cuisine
Granted, it's kind of a tabloid stunt to immediately mention that a man eats roadkill when he may intend his broader message to be about sustainability and the distance between us and our food, but I...
Monday, 04 February 2008
Sojo and United Nations smack down biodiesel
Sojourners and the United Nations are the latest in a series of bad press for biodiesel (or "agrofuels" in general) which is not completely undeserved and not completely new to me. I'm...
Wednesday, 23 January 2008
How to find biodiesel on a roadtrip
We are back from our long roadtrip, and Alleia did very well. She loves the car, generally -- especially when we're moving, but we think the gentle rumble of the diesel engine may help even wh...
Tuesday, 01 January 2008
Green (carbon neutral) web hosting
Some time ago, I wrote about switching our house over to wind power. This was a step in the right direction for all the electricity we use internally such as our lights, stereo, fans, and the computer...
Tuesday, 02 October 2007
Alternative Gift Registry (wedding, baby, etc.)
Just a bit too late for us to use, I found out about the Alternative Gift Registry. We had created our baby registry manually so that we could add non-commercial items (like meals after the baby is b...
Tuesday, 25 September 2007
World Carfree Day - Sept. 22
Adbusters: Every September 22, people across the globe get together to swear off their cars -- if only for one day -- in a collective reminder that we don't have to accept car-dominated soci...
Wednesday, 19 September 2007
We're running on biodiesel
Well, we've done it. In the last month or so we've moved off of gasoline and onto biodiesel. We bought a used TDI, joined up with a biodiesel co-op, and sold our old Corsica. We're still...
Thursday, 19 July 2007
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