better, cheaper, greener?
A few months ago, I finally had the chance to read Whole Earth Discipline, the 2009 manifesto by Stewart Brand of Whole Earth Catalog fame (among many things). He ranges over a variety of forces that are changing the planet and its potential habitability for humans, and also addresses the kinds of technologies he thinks [...]
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Eating Local Art
One of my former students, Jena Duncan, has a new blog chronicling her art efforts around eating locally. “Jena Performing Local” began a week or so ago, as she embarked on a 100-mile diet. She’s recording her food purchases, yearnings, frustrations, and the like, as well as the questions and problems that this new diet, begun [...]
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More on green & morality…
I’ve a good friend who talks about food having replaced sex as contemporary America’s moral fixation, as a site where we publicly act out our ethical concerns, define our own moral high ground, exercise judgments. I think he’s largely right and I also think he’s baiting me when he says this.
You see, he knows that [...]
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