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  lowflow

  To save water in toilet flushing, we save the pee in plastic milk jugs (females use a funnel) and dump it on the leaf pile. Breaks down nicely. Great fertile mulch. But in the winter, or with no leaf pile, we fill a jug and flush it all down in one flush (or it "flushes itself".On Umbra on low-flow flushing posted 3 years, 11 months ago 5 Responses

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  on environmental guilt

  To all of us out there who feel guilty about environmental sins, there is a condition we are suffering under, and Ivan Illich had a name for it: "Radical Monopoly", meaning that the society in which we are embedded creates conditions under which it is very difficult to choose alternative kinds of behavior (like not driving a car when everything is at a great distance, because we have been driving cars for so long). "Radical Monopoly" is at work in many of our guilty behaviours, and the conditions have to be attacked socially. Individual guilt doesn't cut it.

  Here's the challenge: "Radical Monopoly" is a dumb name. We need a new one, one that people will understand, (so they can move on to feeling guilty about not taking social action, instead of thinking they have to be perfect as individuals). So does anybody have a good name for this important principle, one that would take off?On So tell us ... what's your dirty little environmental secret? posted 4 years, 7 months ago 84 Responses

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  on environmental guilt

  To all of us out there who feel guilty about environmental sins, there is a condition we are suffering under, and Ivan Illich had a name for it: "Radical Monopoly", meaning that the society in which we are embedded creates conditions under which it is very difficult to choose alternative kinds of behavior (like not driving a car when everything is at a great distance, because we have been driving cars for so long). "Radical Monopoly" is at work in many of our guilty behaviours, and the conditions have to be attacked socially. Individual guilt doesn't cut it.

  Here's the challenge: "Radical Monopoly" is a dumb name. We need a new one, one that people will understand, (so they can move on to feeling guilty about not taking social action, instead of thinking they have to be perfect as individuals). So does anybody have a good name for this important principle, one that would take off?On What's your secret eco-sin? posted 4 years, 7 months ago 84 Responses