Via Culture Change, here are 21 things you can do to upstage and replace the global pollution economy (and prepare for peak oil among other converging issues).
* Buy a used car instead of a new one
* Trade clothes and other goods instead of buying
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This sentiment has been repeated elsewhere, but I felt I had to weigh in too. The overwhelming majority of those who are suffering the worst in the Katrina disaster are those too poor to have packed things up and evacuated in cars, bought bus tickets, or paid long-distance taxi fares. What’s going on in New […]

While I have not read any of his books, I attended a talk last night by Bill McKibben, environmental writer whose books include the bestseller The End of Nature and Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age. The local Illahee Lecture Series sponsored his visit as a part of its How Cities Learn: Portland’s […]

Poking my nose in for a minute… I’m still doing much more blogging over at Critical Studies of Schooling.
Had the opportunity to see Ward Churchill last night at Reed College. It was closed to the public, meaning I had to wrangle with a friend to find a way to get in (since I don’t […]

I cannot catch up with the amount of reading due in my classes. There is never down-time because I should always be reading.
The dead pope on every channel, every newspaper cover, public radio every hour… Geesh, it’s as bad as when Ronald Reagan died.
All those Terri and pope and no mention […]

We’ve been talking subculture in my Sociology of Deviance class. You know how when a subcultural element diffuses into the mainstream, there’s that feeling of let-down for those within the subculture? It’s the let-down of “that was mine, damn it!” Dr. Blazak was telling us that there are two responses to this: a) abandon […]

My Women of Color in the U.S. instructor passed out a sheet last Thursday night with the following list. I couldn’t find a link to it anywhere online, so I thought I’d reproduce it here. These are very helpful reminders:
Examples of subtle homophobia, heterosexism, and sexism
by Rheua S. Stakely
Assume everyone you meet is probably […]