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orion planets — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:15:37 GMT

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re: Go Outside and Play

lulu — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:41:45 GMT

YO DUDE!

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re: Go Outside and Play

rachel — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:01:15 GMT

i'm goth

re: Pedal Powered TV and More at the State Fair

liz — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:11:49 GMT

I sure hope you didn't actually eat all that stuff -

It would be cool if, since most machine barns at most state fairs have sort of faded, instead of the status quo exhibits, fairs would have a special section for organic growers, and turn their former machinery displays into venues for wind generators and geothermal furnaces, and an entire sustainable house to walk through with cutaways and energy efficient systems all working - I guess it would be TOO much to have a family actually living in this sustainable house during the fair - sort of like the 1939 world's fair, which took place during another world crisis....

Fairs can go green-er.

re: Go Outside and Play

Ecomonkey — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:12:15 GMT

If kids don't spend time outside they won't learn about what the world IS - they think it is something outside of themselves. I work with kids as a preschool aide, who don't understand that water makes earth muddy, who don't understand gravity or that feeling that spinning the swing in a circle causes. They don't understand that they can break a stick by standing on one end and pulling up the other.

These kids will not only not understand nature, they won't understand that they are part of a physical universe. And many of them sit still so much and snack on junk so much they look like tiny middle-aged people by the time they are in the third or fourth grade.

We need to reconnect.

re: The demise of agribusiness...?

liz — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:39:32 GMT

Thanks for sending me to the Wendell Berry essay.

Sometimes people talk as though the destruction of Creation is an accomplishment, as though somehow subduing the world was the same thing as rendering it inert. We wouldn't spit on a gift from a beloved friend - believers should be the very first people to object to what we are doing to the Creator's gift of a world.

re: Green Thumb a go-go!

Rosalind — Tue, 22 May 2007 03:16:21 GMT

But how much difference can a patio pot of parsley make, really? Is it just a fun hobby that can change attitude? 'cuz I don't know that it's goin save lots of carbon.

re: Green Thumb a go-go!

Linnea — Wed, 16 May 2007 00:56:29 GMT

Spinach and radishes are two of my patio garden favorites. I think that this is also a great idea for children; everyone loves to have their own project.

re: Fashionably Green

Olivia — Tue, 15 May 2007 20:30:42 GMT

These companies that create brands and sell us stuff could start with green brands - I guess it's a little bit little and a little bit late, but a late start is better than nothing. Now, if they can just make being ecological as sexy as it has been to conspicuously consume their products.

Vanity Fair IS trite and trivial. But it's also where the Paris and Brittany fans go for their news -- so sell them some survival and the rest of us can enjoy it.

re: The Green Suburbanite, Part 1

Orlando — Tue, 15 May 2007 18:56:27 GMT

The suburbs is the hardest sell. I had to tell my parents that they wouldn't have to change bulbs in high places in order to sell them on the flourescent bulbs - and now they tell their friends how smart they are. But they weren't interested in saving carbon and didn;'t believe it would save them money - it was just making their month a little easier that finally did it. I don't know what I can get them to do next - maybe buy a nalgene bottle instead of all those little bottled waters.