Problem definition, language, analysis and solutions
- Social interactions without trash
- Finding ways to continue unsustainability
- Guest blog #6: Jason Lai - What does a sustainable future mean to you? (with added commentary from me)
- Language
- Why trash? A personal statement for today's Michigan Daily
- Definitions and redefinitions
- Incinerating as a "solution," creating other problems
- At what point is something a problem?
- Broken cycles
- Why focus on trash and waste?
- Defining ourselves, ourselves
- Some more thoughts on the definition of the problem
- Decisions and "Solutions"
- Addressing complexity with more complexity
- On definitions and development
- On Freedom and Progress
- "Efficiency" and problem definition
- Guest Blog #2: Dr. Forbes and Levels of Analysis
- "Disposable"
- We are not materialistic enough
- On practicality, reality and idealism
- Guest Blog #4: Michelle Price - Closing the gap
- On appreciation
- Guest blog #11 - Dr. Jack Edelstein's thoughts on conservation and entropy
- War and the Environment - Analogies to trash
- On paper and communication
- On goodness (and kindness - replace goodness)
- We have everything we need
- On the fallacy "economic" sustainability
- Short term vs. long term, and "economic" sustainability
- Trash smells? Use deodorant!
- On risk
- On the human scale
- On change
- On rapid responses to technology
- More thoughts on ownership and "development"
- Now
- Reflections on the year: Three kinds of "action"
- On framing: consumption vs. trash
- It is spring. It is St. Patrick's Day. Don't just wear green.
- Further thoughts on risk
- On the importance of problem definition
- One year after the spill, who can we trust?
- I am not extreme
- What if scientists quit?
- Are we fighting the right battles?
- What "development" means for sustainability
- Against the tide
- "Goods"
- FRACK YOU - Innocent until proven guilty
- "If men are forced to do what is right...
- What does it mean to be a "pragmatist"?
- The modification of engineering
- The engineering of modification
- Broad concerns on the bridge in Detroit
- Specific concerns about the bridge in Detroit
- Trying to buy back what we've lost
- Engineering and sustainability ethics
- $2/day - Further thoughts on appreciation
- $2/day - Some thoughts on perception
- My TEDx talk
- On choice, poverty, and sustainability
- How much should I give up?
- Some thoughts on control
- The more we have, the more we waste
- What we take as a given
- False dichotomies
- Government, industry, and proxies
- Mirror
- Intentionality and appreciation
- Leading twenty-first century lives with Stone Age minds
- On a lack of honesty
- When can personal change result in social change?
- Guest blog #20: Jason Lai breaking it down
- Illusions
- On the power of story
- On activism in science
- Further thoughts on activism in science
- We cannot fight it
- Guest blog #22: Julia Petty on expanding the definition of "waste" in food
- The American Dream?
- Contradictions of "progress"
- Experience it for yourself
- Why?
- The loss of nuance
- Money and good work
- A new kind of Pareto optimality
- When is it right to start criticising our ethics?
- How we undervalue
- On compromise and the environment
- On practicality, reality and idealism
- Reconciling behaviour
- We all start from different places, hopefully to end up somewhere together
- An honest effort
- Social justice and sustainability - the conflict of time
- On those most vulnerable
- "Going green, but getting nowhere"
- When push comes to shove, where will you stand?
- Furthering what's best and forestalling what's worst
- Wangari Maathai - inspiration
- There is no single answer
- The "entitlement" of having children?
- Children, legacy, and meaning
- First as tragedy, then as farce
- With guilt comes motivation
- Educating "sustainable" individuals
- What makes us so special?
- Occupy it all, fear nothing
- A gap in communication and language
- Adequate answers?
- "The environmentalists in the United States are damaging the world's environment"
- On appropriateness
- A few thoughts on sustainability
- Guest blog #17: Laura Smith on durable change and rethinking incentives
- On the unsustainability of tradeoffs
- Secularising the mystical
- On the power of story
- Some more thoughts on responsibility
- On debt and indebtedness
- Capitalism's lack of compassion
- Some thoughts on inequality
- Understanding privilege
- The chink in the armor
- A chink in the armor may have been found
- Taking matters into their own hands
- Community objects
- Overcoming uncertainty
- A daily meditation
- Some more thoughts on time
- What are we being educated for?
- You plus me equals us
- Hope and courage overcome
- Opening spaces for ourselves
- Step outside your life and thoughts
- Education and expertise
- Some thoughts on motivation and responsibility
- The eternal question
- Freedom and the status quo
- Tim DeChristopher on "freedom"
- Experience and possibilities
- Some thoughts on fear and forgiveness
- How appreciation is activist
- Reskilling and rebuilding community with Laura Smith
- Little girls? No. Strong women
- Stepping into nature with Syndallas Baughman and Rowena Conahan
- Slowing down fast lives
- The Greenpeace Commons
- What do you call it?
- When positivity rests on the ability to degrade
- Some paradoxical juggernauts
- Preserving the spectra
- What do we do with what we know?
- Imagining the possibilities
- Where neoliberalism ends and community resiliency begins
- When specificity is a roadblock
- Making yourself irrelevant
- Is abundance enough?
- Transforming the obligatory passage point
- Thoughts on ecology, reductionism and capitalism
- Wait a while
- "Do something local and do something real."
- Places worth caring about
- More on care and affection
- "Why isn't the green world enough for us?"
- The Overview Effect
- With knowledge comes responsibility
- Guest blog #28: Scott Wagnon's thoughts on population
Responsibility, behaviour, introspection and action
- A month in, and a continuing social experiment
- Bubbles, proxies, responsibility and invisibility
- Bubbles (again) and giving up...
- Being away from home
- Private choices
- What we have already
- The options are there. We just have to make the right choices.
- Refuge in change, and questioning authority
- The Self-Repair Manifesto and proxies
- Intentional climate change, procedural justice and the case for individual action
- Breaking points
- Refuge in change, and questioning authority
- Defining ourselves, ourselves
- Compassion, "networking" and activism
- Personal responsibility
- To landfill
- Guest Blog #4: Michelle Price - Closing the gap
- Constant vigilance
- What is my "standard of living"?
- Guest blog #7: Adrianna Bojrab Unplugged
- On appreciation
- On preparedness
- On corporations the corporate culture
- Guest blog #9: Adrianna's back with ideas for parties tonight!
- On individual action
- On morality and individual action
- Guest blog #10: Mrs. McMullen-Laird's three-year journey
- Guest blog #11 - Dr. Jack Edelstein's thoughts on conservation and entropy
- On my declining faith in government
- On peace, spirit and the environment
- On goodness (and kindness - replace goodness)
- We have everything we need
- Paragraphs on patience
- On risk
- On the deficiencies of the law
- How much choice should we have in a sustainable world?
- On change
- Now
- Be affected differently
- On our obligation to nature
- On rights, conveniences and obligations
- Reflections on the year: Where I live
- Reflections on the year: Three kinds of "action"
- On framing: consumption vs. trash
- It is spring. It is St. Patrick's Day. Don't just wear green.
- Reflections on the year: The importance of the journey
- On encouragement and reinforcement
- Reflections on the year: Time and the contradictory "now"
- On the building of community
- What motivates us? A call for thoughts
- Further thoughts on risk
- Changing the system, or navigating it with integrity
- We cannot wait
- Guest blog #17: Laura Smith on durable change and rethinking incentives
- Further thoughts on choice
- Reflections on TEDxUofM
- The data don't speak for themselves
- FRACK YOU - Not learning from our mistakes
- I am not extreme
- What if scientists quit?
- Are we fighting the right battles?
- "If men are forced to do what is right...
- What does it mean to be a "pragmatist"?
- On the relationship between adaptability and what we have
- Engineering and sustainability ethics
- $2/day - Further thoughts on appreciation
- $2/day - Some thoughts on perception
- My TEDx talk
- How much should I give up?
- On bridging the macro and micro
- Some thoughts on control
- The more we have, the more we waste
- What we take as a given
- Submitting to "authority"
- Mirror
- Intentionality and appreciation
- Leading twenty-first century lives with Stone Age minds
- On a lack of honesty
- When can personal change result in social change?
- Some more thoughts on responsibility
- On activism in science
- Further thoughts on activism in science
- We cannot fight it
- Every decision is moral
- On debt and indebtedness
- Experience it for yourself
- Why?
- On entitlement
- The loss of nuance
- On legacy and time
- Money and good work
- Choice and political consumption
- More thoughts on political consumption
- I gave up toilet paper...
- Reconciling behaviour
- The path from here to there
- Blind and/or psychopathic
- An honest effort
- Keep at it
- "Going green, but getting nowhere"
- When push comes to shove, where will you stand?
- One step at a time
- Furthering what's best and forestalling what's worst
- The "entitlement" of having children?
- Children, legacy, and meaning
- With guilt comes motivation
- Occupy it all, fear nothing
- On appropriateness
- Leaving negative cycles and entering positive ones
- Guest blog #23: Adrianna Bojrab on GoodGuide and choice
- Guest blog #17: Laura Smith on durable change and rethinking incentives
- Some more thoughts on responsibility
- Filling our days
- Are you happy now?
- You plus me equals us
- Words of wisdom from Grace Lee Boggs
- Step outside your life and thoughts
- Some thoughts on motivation and responsibility
- Freedom and the status quo
- Tim DeChristopher on "freedom"
- Some thoughts on fear and forgiveness
- How appreciation is activist
- Reskilling and rebuilding community with Laura Smith
- Slowing down fast lives
- Some paradoxical juggernauts
- What do we do with what we know?
- Two years
- Imagining the possibilities
- Guest blog #27: Adrianna Bojrab's thoughts on little city nudges
- Wait a while
- "Why would you want to do jury duty?!"
- Places worth caring about
- More on care and affection
- "Why isn't the green world enough for us?"
- Let it go
- The Keystone XL pipeline: Youth protest
Culture, values, social constructs and human nature
- Bubbles, proxies, responsibility and invisibility
- Social interactions without trash
- Reductionism and trash
- (close to) no trash fashion
- Realising change in reflection
- Cities
- The environmental impact of cities
- Guest Blog #4: Michelle Price - Closing the gap
- Compassion, "networking" and activism
- The ecologically noble savage
- Doing things just because we can
- The options are there. We just have to make the right choices.
- Experiencing beauty, and the trash borne of it
- To landfill
- Trash in India - "Cleanliness is next to godliness"
- My issues with TerraCycle
- What we have already
- The rich create it, the poor deal with it
- Finding ways to continue unsustainability
- Centralisation and trash
- Packaging, information and trust
- What plastic bags say about how we live
- Social interactions without trash
- Un-self-sufficiency and convenience
- What is my "standard of living"?
- Overdue thoughts
- We are not materialistic enough
- What we lose through "efficiency"
- What we lose through "efficiency" - feedback
- Why not trash Yellowstone?
- On compromise and the environment
- The environmental impact of cities
- On corporations the corporate culture
- Feature: Dandelion Communitea Cafe
- On practicality, reality and idealism
- What we lose through "efficiency" - Jevon's Paradox and complexity
- On paper and communication
- On my declining faith in government
- On peace, spirit and the environment
- On ownership
- More thoughts on ownership and "development"
- Nature vs. necessity
- On risk
- On the law and being retrospective
- On the deficiencies of the law
- What will we use it for if we don't understand what it means?
- On rapid responses to technology
- On the gaps in technology and obsolescence
- Guest blog #13: Jason Lai and The Joy of Waiting
- Now
- Be affected differently
- On our obligation to nature
- On rights, conveniences and obligations
- Put yourself in their shoes
- On framing: consumption vs. trash
- On encouragement and reinforcement
- Reflections on the year: Time and the contradictory "now"
- On the building of community
- A life of its own
- What motivates us? A call for thoughts
- On meaning
- Further thoughts on risk
- Peace and the deficiencies of anthropocentrism
- Further thoughts on choice
- The data don't speak for themselves
- One year after the spill, who can we trust?
- Guest blog #18: Catherine Baxter living trash-free...it's normal
- Against the tide
- Some thoughts on violence
- FRACK YOU - Innocent until proven guilty
- The results of arrogance - our first days in Detroit
- Broad concerns on the bridge in Detroit
- Specific concerns about the bridge in Detroit
- Trying to buy back what we've lost
- On inequality, poverty, and ecological degradation
- On the relationship between adaptability and what we have
- On the scarcity argument for technology
- Some thoughts on control
- The more we have, the more we waste
- What we take as a given
- False dichotomies
- Submitting to "authority"
- Government, industry, and proxies
- Mirror
- Intentionality and appreciation
- On a lack of honesty
- Secularising the mystical
- Money - An exploration
- Some more thoughts on responsibility
- Money - Scott Russell Sanders on the paradoxical nature of money
- The American Dream?
- Contradictions of "progress"
- Money - Skewing value
- On entitlement
- The loss of nuance
- Money and good work
- Sacrifice and trust
- To sacrifice is to make sacred
- The Gulf Between Us
- Why do we choose not to be surrounded by beauty?
- Feature: Waste Land, Vik Muniz, and consciousness
- "We would use a steam shovel to pick up a dime if we could"
- Reconciling behaviour
- The path from here to there
- Blind and/or psychopathic
- Social justice and sustainability - the conflict of time
- "Going green, but getting nowhere"
- The right, the wrong, and the other
- Preaching to the choir
- A prayer against violence
- Openly speaking about norms and values
- Furthering what's best and forestalling what's worst
- Traveling at home: Dave Trombley occupying Ann Arbor
- The "entitlement" of having children?
- Knowing no boundaries
- What makes us so special?
- Occupy it all, fear nothing
- A gap in communication and language
- On appropriateness
- Leaving negative cycles and entering positive ones
- Guest blog #17: Laura Smith on durable change and rethinking incentives
- On the unsustainability of tradeoffs
- Living with all of our capacities
- Moving towards idealism
- Jeremy Rifkin and the empathic civilisation
- Capitalism's lack of compassion
- Understanding privilege
- Overcoming uncertainty
- Some more thoughts on time
- What are we being educated for?
- Change without change
- Hope and courage overcome
- We might need their help more than they need ours
- The eternal question
- A few more thoughts on privilege
- The idealism of youthfulness
- Slowing down fast lives
- Some thoughts on technology and utopia through invasion
- Preserving the spectra
- A changed relationship with materials
- Imagining the possibilities
- Where neoliberalism ends and community resiliency begins
- Being dismissed
- Conscious abstraction
- What is human nature? Part 1
- "Do something local and do something real."
- More on care and affection
- "Why isn't the green world enough for us?"
Limits, knowledge, and complexity
- Limits of the mind, science and society
- Addressing complexity with more complexity
- Decisions and "Solutions"
- Limits, of another kind
- Generating "knowledge," but gaining little wisdom
- Living with all of our capacities
- Overcoming uncertainty
- Some more thoughts on time
- When special interest supersedes wisdom
- Education and expertise
- The data don't speak for themselves
- With knowledge comes responsibility
Ethics, law, philosophy, and justice
- On Freedom and Progress
- Trash and the commons
- The legality of trash and waste
- Developing an ethic of trash
- Intentional climate change, procedural justice and the case for individual action
- When is it right to start criticising our ethics?
- The laws governing the world's largest dump - an introduction
- Why not trash Yellowstone?
- On the law and being retrospective
- On the deficiencies of the law
- On peace, spirit and the environment
- War and the Environment - Just War Theory
- Nature vs. necessity
- What came first and the wisdom from the world
- The path from here to there
- Blind and/or psychopathic
- On those most vulnerable
- What does peace mean to you?
- Wangari Maathai - inspiration
- Building bridges: philosophy and waste
- On the unsustainability of tradeoffs
- Moving towards idealism
- Words of wisdom from Grace Lee Boggs
- Guest blog #24: Claire Whitlinger on amnesty and ecological justice
- Guest blog #24 (continued): Claire Whitlinger on amnesty and ecological justice
- "Why would you want to do jury duty?!"
- Thoughts on the population issue
- "Sustainability is illegal."
Economy, economics, choice, and consumption
- What is my "standard of living"?
- Bubbles (again) and giving up...
- Un-self-sufficiency and convenience
- Trash and the commons
- Centralisation and trash
- Private choices
- Inequality, globalisation, trash and waste
- Trash in India - Let's import trash!
- When we use, we don't conserve
- Doing things just because we can
- The business of trash
- The commodification of trash and a four day sabbatical
- A natural course
- Ethics in research design and the longevity of interest
- A new kind of Pareto optimality
- Choice and political consumption
- More thoughts on political consumption
- How we undervalue
- On corporations the corporate culture
- How much should I give up?
- How much choice should we have in a sustainable world?
- On the fallacy "economic" sustainability
- Short term vs. long term, and "economic" sustainability
- One more time...
- The chink in the armor
- Heirloom living
- Blind and/or psychopathic
- "Going green, but getting nowhere"
- Traveling at home: Dave Trombley occupying Ann Arbor
- The "entitlement" of having children?
- First as tragedy, then as farce
- Occupy it all, fear nothing
- On appropriateness
- Guest blog #23: Adrianna Bojrab on GoodGuide and choice
- Guest blog #17: Laura Smith on durable change and rethinking incentives
- On the unsustainability of tradeoffs
- $2/day - The Westernisation of poverty
- $2/day - On knowing what's out there
- The conditions lived and worked in
- Some more thoughts on responsibility
- On debt and indebtedness
- Jeremy Rifkin and the empathic civilisation
- Capitalism's lack of compassion
- Some thoughts on inequality
- Are you happy now?
- Rich people problems
- Community objects
- What will you not buy this holiday season?
- "...under-populated countries in Africa are vastly under-polluted"
- A response to Larry Summers from The Economist
- A veil of morality
- It's still a veil of morality
- Change without change
- When special interest supersedes wisdom
- A market for everything
- Some thoughts on motivation and responsibility
- Little girls? No. Strong women
- Where neoliberalism ends and community resiliency begins
- Being dismissed
- When specificity is a roadblock
- Thoughts on ecology, reductionism and capitalism
- Let it go
The nature of trash and waste, analogies, and comparisons
- Overdue thoughts
- Scales of trash
- Amount of trash - a primer
- Being away from home
- Trash and the commons
- What plastic bags say about how we live
- Packaging, information and trust
- Harmony and trash
- Centralisation and trash
- The legality of trash and waste
- My issues with TerraCycle
- Food packaging and trash
- Developing an ethic of trash
- Trash in India
- An American pioneer
- To landfill
- Why focus on trash and waste?
- Broken cycles
- Doing things just because we can
- Reductionism and trash
- The business of trash
- Incinerating as a "solution," creating other problems
- Time capsule
- Trash as water
- The commodification of trash and a four day sabbatical
- Soap is waste
- Definitions and redefinitions
- The history of recycling
- Why trash? A personal statement for today's Michigan Daily
- Why do we choose not to be surrounded by beauty?
- (close to) no trash fashion
- "Disposable"
- Chewing gum is forever
- War and the Environment - Depleted uranium, a radioactive waste
- War and the Environment - Analogies to trash
- Feature: Waste Land, Vik Muniz, and consciousness
- Trash smells? Use deodorant!
- The recycling conundrum
- My medical waste
- I gave up toilet paper...
- On legacy and time
- Heirloom living
- Blind and/or psychopathic
- On framing: consumption vs. trash
- Building bridges: philosophy and waste
- Wabi Sabi, the aesthetic of decay
- "Instantaneous" trash
- $2/day - Further thoughts on appreciation
- The conditions lived and worked in
- A market for everything
- Two years
- Thoughts on ecology, reductionism and capitalism
Trash here and around the world
- Trash and the commons
- What plastic bags say about how we live
- A win for Chicago, a loss for the environment
- Chicago
- A different view
- Trash in India
- Trash in India - "Cleanliness is next to godliness"
- Trash in India - Let's import trash!
- Canadian waste in Michigan, and Michigan's waste infrastructure
- Why Michigan? A portrait of a landfill town and state
- Trash in Japan
- Institutionalising zero-waste at UM
- The laws governing the world's largest dump - an introduction
- Feature: Waste Land, Vik Muniz, and consciousness
- $2/day - Further thoughts on appreciation
- The conditions lived and worked in
- "...under-populated countries in Africa are vastly under-polluted"
- A response to Larry Summers from The Economist
- A veil of morality
- (unsuspecting) Guest blog #26: Eric Bumbalough in Vienna
- Places worth caring about
Climate change, ethics and morality
- The eternal question
- The jagged edges of the Keeling Curve
- Guest blog #25: Ashwin Salvi on greenhouse gases and reforestation
- What has brought us here will not take us there
- Tim DeChristopher on "freedom"
- When special interest supersedes wisdom
- You plus me equals us
- Overcoming uncertainty
- Adequate answers?
- A gap in communication and language
- Children, legacy, and meaning
- The "entitlement" of having children?
- We cannot fight it
- Illusions
- On the relationship between adaptability and what we have
- What if scientists quit?
- The data don't speak for themselves
- What motivates us? A call for thoughts
- On framing: consumption vs. trash
- On the law and being retrospective
- On practicality, reality and idealism
- Intentional climate change, procedural justice and the case for individual action
- Reskilling and rebuilding community with Laura Smith
- What do you call it?
- With knowledge comes responsibility
- The Keystone XL pipeline: Youth protest
"Developing", "development", "sustainable development", "industrialized", "industrializing"
- On definitions and development
- Developing an ethic of trash
- Social justice and sustainability - the conflict of time
- Wangari Maathai - inspiration
- Personal responsibility
- A natural course
- On risk
- More thoughts on ownership and "development"
- On framing: consumption vs. trash
- What "development" means for sustainability
- Trying to buy back what we've lost
- On "resources"
- When positivity rests on the ability to degrade
- On appropriateness
- A few thoughts on sustainability
- Jeremy Rifkin and the empathic civilisation
- "...under-populated countries in Africa are vastly under-polluted"
- A response to Larry Summers from The Economist
- A veil of morality
- It's still a veil of morality
- A few more thoughts on privilege
- When positivity rests on the ability to degrade
- Thoughts on the population issue
- Guest blog #28: Scott Wagnon's thoughts on population
- Rich people problems
- It is spring. It is St. Patrick's Day. Don't just wear green.
- Trash in India - Let's import trash!
- The American Dream?
Poverty, inequality, and living on $2 per day
- $2/day - Expectations
- $2/day - Some food, many thoughts
- $2/day - Further thoughts on appreciation
- $2/day - Some thoughts on perception
- $2/day - The Westernisation of poverty
- $2/day - On knowing what's out there
- On definitions and development
- The rich create it, the poor deal with it
- Inequality, globalisation, trash and waste
- Trafigura update
- Trash in India - Let's import trash!
- When we use, we don't conserve
- Put yourself in their shoes
- Blind and/or psychopathic
- Social justice and sustainability - the conflict of time
- On those most vulnerable
- Traveling at home: Dave Trombley occupying Ann Arbor
- On the unsustainability of tradeoffs
- On inequality, poverty, and ecological degradation
- On choice, poverty, and sustainability
- Capitalism's lack of compassion
- Some thoughts on inequality
- Understanding privilege
- Rich people problems
- "...under-populated countries in Africa are vastly under-polluted"
- A response to Larry Summers from The Economist
- A veil of morality
- It's still a veil of morality
- Step outside your life and thoughts
- Making yourself irrelevant
Education
- With knowledge comes responsibility
- Guest blog #28: Scott Wagnon's thoughts on population
- Transforming the obligatory passage point
- The Greenpeace Commons
- Education and expertise
- Opening spaces for ourselves
- What are we being educated for?
- Educating "sustainable" individuals
- Furthering what's best and forestalling what's worst
- The modification of engineering
- Understanding privilege
Money - an exploration
- Money - An exploration
- Money - Scott Russell Sanders on the paradoxical nature of money
- Money - Skewing value
- Money and good work
- Money - What the rich cannot afford
- Money - Comparing apples and computers
- Money - Donald Worster on commodification
- On debt and indebtedness
- Thoughts on ecology, reductionism and capitalism
Objects and materials
- Objects and materials: What compels us to throw away?
- Objects and materials: On availability
- Objects and materials: Shape and design
- Objects and materials: Who worked for it?
- Objects and materials: Shape and design
- Objects and materials: On creativity
- Objects and materials: On cost and value (quasi-guest blogger #14 Marco Ceze)
- Heirloom living
- First as tragedy, then as farce
- Community objects
- A changed relationship with materials
- Is abundance enough?
- Wait a while
- Places worth caring about
- Guest blog #29: Minimalist parenting by Crystal Thrall, part I
- Guest blog #29: Minimalist parenting by Crystal Thrall, part II
Peace, war, violence, and the environment
- War and the Environment - Just War Theory
- War and the Environment - Non-war time
- War and the Environment - Depleted uranium, a radioactive waste
- War and the Environment - Analogies to trash
- War and the Environment: Schizophrenia
- What does peace mean to you?
- Moving towards idealism
- On peace, spirit and the environment
- Peace and the deficiencies of anthropocentrism
- A prayer against violence
- Mirror
- Hope and courage overcome
- Forms of violence
Science and technology
- On paper and communication
- What will we use it for if we don't understand what it means?
- On rapid responses to technology
- On the gaps in technology and obsolescence
- What if scientists quit?
- The modification of engineering
- The engineering of modification
- Engineering and sustainability ethics
- On the scarcity argument for technology
- On activism in science
- Further thoughts on activism in science
- Secularising the mystical
- Living with all of our capacities
- Overcoming uncertainty
- What are we being educated for?
- Some thoughts on technology and utopia through invasion
- What do you call it?
- What do we do with what we know?
- A changed relationship with materials
- Is abundance enough?
- The Overview Effect
- With knowledge comes responsibility
Food and human health
- Un-self-sufficiency and convenience
- Food from trash
- Food packaging and trash
- A no-trash thanksgiving meal
- Harming nature and creating trash in the name of medicine and health
- Feature: Dandelion Communitea Cafe
- A personal experiment in feminine hygiene
- Frita Batidos - a harrowing experience
- My medical waste
- Guest blog #16: Crystal Thrall and her DivaCup
- On entitlement
- Eating trash: putting the thingness back into food
- $2/day - Some food, many thoughts
- Your toxic body
- Guest blog #22: Julia Petty on expanding the definition of "waste" in food
- Filling our days
- Taking matters into their own hands
- Making yourself irrelevant
- Thoughts on ecology, reductionism and capitalism
- Guest blog #29: Minimalist parenting by Crystal Thrall, part I
FRACK YOU - a series on hydraulic fracturing
- FRACK YOU - A series on the rape of the Earth and its people
- FRACK YOU - Not learning from our mistakes
- FRACK YOU: The tyranny of energy
- FRACK YOU - Innocent until proven guilty
- FRACK YOU - A toxic child worsens a toxic legacy
- FRACK YOU: "Get used to it."
- To more sustainable neighbourhoods in Detroit
- The results of arrogance - our first days in Detroit
- Broad concerns on the bridge in Detroit
- Specific concerns about the bridge in Detroit
- Social justice and sustainability - the conflict of time
- On the unsustainability of tradeoffs
- $2/day - Some thoughts on perception
- Guest blog #21: Matthew Mejia on the power of shared experience
- Slowing down fast lives
- Where neoliberalism ends and community resiliency begins
Traveling at home
- Reflections on the year: Where I live
- New adventures: Traveling at home
- Traveling at home - Initial thoughts and feedback
- Traveling at home: Where I live
- Traveling at home: Ypsilanti with Tim
- Traveling at home: Can we love nature simply?
- Traveling at home: It's in your backyard
- Traveling at home: Lonnie Compeau, honey, and the Old West Side
- Traveling at home: Biking to Whitmore Lake
- Traveling at home: A bike ride through farmland
- Traveling at home: Dave Trombley occupying Ann Arbor
- Traveling at home: The Huron River
- More reflections on where I live
- What if you don't live in Ann Arbor?
- Three years, and traveling (at home, too)
- Traveling at home: Annie Clark and her cafe
Reflections on the year
- Early realisations, thoughts and links
- Four weeks left, yet a lifetime still ahead
- Reflections on the year: Where I live
- Reflections on the year: Who I am surrounded by
- Reflections on the year: Three kinds of "action"
- Reflections on the year: The importance of the journey
- Reflections on the year: Time and the contradictory now
- One year
- Two years
- Three years, and traveling (at home, too)
Boycotts
- Boycott - what is it?
- Boycott - different flavours and kinds
- Boycott - strategies and effectiveness
- The effectiveness of boycotting - point/counter-point
- The chink in the armor
- A chink in the armor may have been found
Guest blogs
- Guest blogger Jennifer: BBQ in Florida
- Guest Blog #2: Dr. Forbes and Levels of Analysis
- A different view
- Guest Blog #3: Minimum Waste Wedding - Zachary Brym
- Wedding ring
- Guest Blog #4: Michelle Price - Closing the gap
- Guest Blog #5: Sarah 'GiGi' Herman - My Leap into the World of Local Food
- Guest Blog #6: Jason Lai - What does a sustainable future mean to you?
- Guest blog #7: Adrianna Bojrab Unplugged
- Guest blog #8: Lia Wolock - A tour through my apartment and memories
- Guest blog #9: Adrianna's back with ideas for parties tonight!
- Guest blog #10: Mrs. McMullen-Laird's three-year journey
- Guest blog #11 - Dr. Jack Edelstein's thoughts on conservation and entropy
- Guest Blogger #12: Amazing Alyssa's (Green) Artifacts
- Guest blog #13: Jason Lai and The Joy of Waiting
- Objects and materials: On cost and value (quasi-guest blogger #14 Marco Ceze)
- Guest blog #15: Caroline Canning's thoughts on recycling
- Guest blog #16: Crystal Thrall and her DivaCup
- Guest blog #17: Laura Smith on durable change and rethinking incentives
- Guest blog #18: Catherine Baxter living trash-free...it's normal...
- Guest blog #19: Ashwin Salvi at the airport
- Guest blog #20: Jason Lai breaking it down
- Guest blog #21: Matthew Mejia on the power of shared experience
- Guest blog #22: Julia Petty on expanding the definition of "waste" in food
- Guest blog #23: Adrianna Bojrab on GoodGuide and choice
- Guest blog #24: Claire Whitlinger on amnesty and ecological justice
- Guest blog #24 (continued): Claire Whitlinger on amnesty and ecological justice
- Guest blog #25: Ashwin Salvi on greenhouse gases and reforestation
- (unsuspecting) Guest blog #26: Eric Bumbalough in Vienna
- Guest blog #27: Adrianna Bojrab's thoughts on little city nudges
- Guest blog #28: Scott Wagnon's thoughts on population
- Guest blog #29: Minimalist parenting by Crystal Thrall, part I
- Guest blog #29: Minimalist parenting by Crystal Thrall, part II
Haiku
Miscellaneous
- A new me
- Weekly challenge #1
- Back home
- Cameras rolling...Earthfest
- Birding at a dump
- Baking soda made my teeth sensitive (but I still have never had cavities!)
- Frita Batidos - a harrowing experience
- LEAD Magazine
- My underwear have lots of holes
- It is spring. It is St. Patrick's Day. Don't just wear green
- An optimistic future
- Taking class
- A little break
- Back home
