I got a newsletter from them today promoting carbon offsets, which I understand to mean that you can save in one place and then get a "credit" that will allow you to pollute in a different fashion. It doesn't make sense to me. (The definition on the carbon offsets page says A carbon offset, in simple terms, is a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions elsewhere to cancel out emissions arising from a particular activity.
I don't want to do the same amount of polluting. I want to reduce my polluting. I find this approach disappointing.
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Monday, July 07, 2008
New Economics Foundation
A friend in Britain sent me the link to this site: http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/. If we have anything like it here, I'd like to know about it.
I joined the New American Dream community (http://www.newdream.org/index.php), but I don't see the kind of commitment to a less materialistic ethos in addition to a more sustainable lifestyle that is immediately visible on NEF's home page:
We feel entitled to our vast national riches when we ought to feel blessed and behave like gluttons when we ought to be stewards.
I joined the New American Dream community (http://www.newdream.org/index.php), but I don't see the kind of commitment to a less materialistic ethos in addition to a more sustainable lifestyle that is immediately visible on NEF's home page:
nef is an independent 'think and do' tank. We believe in economics as if people and the planet mattered.Check out ghost town Britain's succinct statement on the effect of large corporate one-size-fits-all stores on local economies. It's the same here, only nobody seems to find anything wrong with it. (http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/local_ghost.aspx?page=960&folder=148&)
We feel entitled to our vast national riches when we ought to feel blessed and behave like gluttons when we ought to be stewards.
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Disappointed in Obama
I was one of many people who emailed Obama to urge him to change his stance on that shameful "let's grant immunity to the telecoms who gave up our data to the NSA" bill. Senator Obama's response was disappointing: that the bill was flawed but we gotta have some defense against the terrorists. I am so sick of being protected out of my constitutional rights by politicians who not only don't represent me, but who are just going to do whatever they want, regardless of their alleged political platform.
Same day, different party. Disappointing.
Same day, different party. Disappointing.
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