Why Green is not Sustainable. “An Environmentalist on the Lie of Locavorism” crossed my desk the other day. It’s a pretty eye-catching title, pitting “An Environmentalist” against local eating and urban farming, darlings of greens and urban planners everywhere – and calling them liars, to boot. That is a pretty big brag. But it didn’t take much reading to see Will Boisvert’s environmental vision needs a very strong pair of glasses. His myopia is in the difference between Green and Sustainable – two words that could use a little definition. Ignoring flagrant greenwashing,2 I use green to mean stuff that is less bad – and I chose my words carefully – for the planet and the flora and fauna3 that live on it. Sustainable, on the other hand, gets beaten around the ring – mostly by people who throw their hands in the air and say, “Sustainable.
It means able-to-be-sustained. It means, for all intents and purposes, that whatever you are talking about can keep on doing what it is doing, and can do so essentially forever. Code Unlimited :: Home. Quotes on sustainable development, climate change & sustainability in general - Quotes Corner. Sustainable Development Strategies - Vision - Future Wouldn't we all benefit from living in societies that were more careful, more resourceful, more respectful and more forward-thinking?
- Jane Davidson, University of Wales Trinity Saint David The 2013/14 storms & floods show the UK needs to invest in a climate resilient, low carbon, food secure, full employment, positive future - Phil Harding (2014) What politician ever thinks beyond 4 or 5 years? But such thinking is hopelessly inadequate for the big questions that involve the fabric of the world we live in - Simon Barnes, columnist, The Times (4.5.2013) A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation - James Freeman Clarke The fate of the climate, forests and agriculture are bound together.
We're never going to scare people into living more sustainably! Simply doing 'better' environmentally will not stop the unravelling of ecological relationships that we depend on for food and health. Return to Top. Poetry: Poems by the classic masters. Videojug - Get Good At Life. 20 Ways to Find Your Calling. Nov 29 Lamont Leader.
Sustainability Policy Workshop & Retreat Jan 2012 Santa Barbara. Jan 15-22nd, 2012 - Santa Barbara, CA Sustainability Policy Retreat for Activists, Enlightened Policymakers and Regulators Santa Barbara, CA foothills, January 15th-22nd 2012, short session 16-19th Public Presentation with Carolyn Raffensperger, 7 pm Jan 16th, SBCCRoundtable with local regulators, 12-1:30 pm Jan 19th, SB downtown =Please RSVP by Friday, Jan 6th if possible, the 9th at the latest= Overarching goal: reduce institutional barriers to sustainability. Specific, narrower goals include creation of a legal umbrella to permit existing and new centers for sustainability research that don't conform to existing codes improve building code and zoning support for integrated, context-specific solutions for sustainability. We aim to have a balance of skills and positions represented, including people both inside and outside the system. --David Eisenberg The retreat is by invitation only.
Please RSVP with your dates, dietary & housing preferences, carpooling needs to Carla Rosin. Accommodations. Cabin Porn. The Great Bell Chant (The End of Suffering) December 17th 2011, "Dave Cooks the Turkey" - Vinyl Cafe Stories from CBC Radio. Pema Chodron. In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves. In particular, to care about other people who are fearful, angry, jealous, overpowered by addictions of all kinds, arrogant, proud, miserly, selfish, mean —you name it— to have compassion and to care for these people, means not to run from the pain of finding these things in ourselves. In fact, one's whole attitude toward pain can change. Instead of fending it off and hiding from it, one could open one's heart and allow oneself to feel that pain, feel it as something that will soften and purify us and make us far more loving and kind.
The tonglen practice is a method for connecting with suffering —ours and that which is all around us— everywhere we go. It is a method for overcoming fear of suffering and for dissolving the tightness of our heart. Primarily it is a method for awakening the compassion that is inherent in all of us, no matter how cruel or cold we might seem to be.
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