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  Do you walk to school or carry your lunch?

  Speaking of false choices...Fromartz places these two trends in oppostion to each other, as if local and organic were somehow mutually exclusive. But this is not really the case, at least not in most regions. Depending on where you live, there's usually an abundance of locally grown organic produce...even throughout the winter. All in all, given this, his very trendy argument of local v. organic is mostly one of false tension. On Local or organic? It's a false choice posted 3 years, 6 months ago 9 Responses

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  Supply the penance

  Dave,

  The SINS send-up was a fun and productive exercise. Thank you for it. It illustrated the difficulty of living green, and it also showed -yes it did- just how loosely we greenies hold our own values.

  Why was this not the lesson?

  Greenmark made the same point in an expansive, contrarian and kill-joy sort of way, but you and Carl seem to have taken the argument a flawed step further and have marginalized the whole idea of personal responsibility. This is typical of Carl, who's happier beating the commons with a stick  than looking within for change, but I expected better from Grist.

  Rather than letting us off the hook by telling us personal responsibility doesn't really matter, a wiser, more considered (and more interesting) approach would be for Grist to use SINS as baseline to measure its readership, and to use SINS as clarion call for us all to go deeper greener.

  It's not too late. Supply the penance.

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  Felony Sin

  Among these misdemeanors I will confess to the felony sin of breaking up with my vegan,  earth-conscious girlfriend because her disciplined lifestyle and general good habits drove me crazy. My penance has been crushing self-awareness and the solitary pursuit of those same values. Forgive me Julianne. On What's your secret eco-sin? posted 4 years, 7 months ago 84 Responses

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  Felony Sin

  Among these misdemeanors I will confess to the felony sin of breaking up with my vegan,  earth-conscious girlfriend because her disciplined lifestyle and general good habits drove me crazy. My penance has been crushing self-awareness and the solitary pursuit of those same values. Forgive me Julianne. On So tell us ... what's your dirty little environmental secret? posted 4 years, 7 months ago 84 Responses

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  re SUVS

  
  Thanks. Imagine what the SC could accomplish in terms of culture shift if, as both protest and a practical matter, the national, states and locals were to renounce SUV's? Whoa! Sure, the SC would instantly lose about 100K members..but it could have a profound and rippling effect on the national energy debate. I think it would even create a shift sufficient to torpedo the ANWR legislation.  

  Of course the bean counters in SF would never consider this..too risky (and what about the innocent auto workers?)plus, SC execs deal in environmental problems, not the underlying cultural ones.  David Brower where are you?  On Battle over immigration policy returns in this month's board election posted 4 years, 7 months ago 10 Responses