Archive for the 'General' Category

In Praise of Self-Deprecation – Wislawa Szymborska

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

In Praise of Self-Deprecation   The buzzard has nothing to fault himself with. Scruples are alien to the black panther. Piranhas do not doubt the rightness of their actions. The rattlesnake approves of himself without reservations.   The self-critical jackal does not exist. The locust, alligator, trichina, horsefly live as they live and are glad [...]

The birds and the bees

Friday, February 6th, 2009

There is a weird rabbit guy at the Farmer’s Market and by weird rabbit guy I mean, the guy who sells honey that has the Flemish Giant rabbit. I have heard so much about this rabbit and I have never even bought honey from the guy or even gone up to his stand to peruse [...]

Moral responsibility of consumers

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Image courtesy of cgfan’s photostream This is a somewhat philosophical post that I have been wanting to write for awhile. We have moral obligations to not take advantage of injustice when at all possible. I began thinking about this in detail when I first started being aware of fair trade coffee and the rights of [...]

It’s been a long time

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

I have read many a blog post with titles similar to the one I have used here. Often it is used by guilty bloggers, who feel that they have abandoned their faithful readers. Yet, while my writing has been inconsistent and often absent from One/Change over the past year, I do not come here today [...]

Buying local and helping the economy

Monday, October 6th, 2008

If you are wanting to help boost the economy the best thing that you can do is buy from small, local businesses. This may seem like a trivial act in light of the current economic crisis; I assure you it is not. Compared to multi-million/billion dollar companies, local businesses are by many viewed as a [...]

Seattle City Council approves 20 cent fee for plastic bags

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

The Seattle City Council approved a proposal (by a 6-1 margin) that will charge shoppers 20 cents for each plastic shopping bag they use. This is great news. The fee will go into effect in January. Opponents of this proposal have said that it taxes those who cannot afford to purchase reusable bags. So to [...]

Informative New Solar Energy Report

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

In June Co-op America and Clean Edge Inc. released an assessment of the potential of solar energy in the next fifty years entitled Utility Solar Assessment Study. The 75 page report is detailed enough to include data and evidence to support it’s claims while refraining from being written in a dry, unengaging fashion. The report’s [...]

Inspirations from Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

So I just finished “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle” by Barbara Kingsolver, Steven Hopp and Camille Kingsolver. What a good book. It talks about their year spent on their farm in Virginia as “locavores”, that is people who are committed to eating locally. In their case, they planned on planting produce as well as raising livestock. The [...]

We’re still here (here being Europe)

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Hello everyone, I just wanted to let you know that we’re still here, we’ve been traveling this summer. It’s provided us with a lot of different perspectives. Going to other places in our world helps us see our home in a different light, but also learn new and different things about the world. It’s also [...]

Organic Undies

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Sorry I have been gone for a bit. School is a total time sucker and in attempting to continue to live a simple life I must choose to give up some activities that I enjoy doing. Since spending time with my hubbo and sleeping will not be sacrificed (not even to school no matter how [...]