Greenwashing is a marketing ploy, akin to whitewashing, where fundamentally toxic and unsustainable businesses exaggerate the value of their environmentally-sustainable and -responsible practices. WalMart, Home Depot and a number of food manufacturers have been accused of greenwashing.
Washing green is, well, keeping your surroundings, clothing and person as clean as possible by using non-toxic materials, […]
Churches are usually employers.
In the United States, churches and other religious organizations are exempt — unwisely I think — are exempt from any number of laws and regulations, but even if they are exempt from labor disclosure laws (and I don’t know if they are) I think fairness and decency obliges church-employers to respond to […]
10:42 p.m. The servers have been white-hot and I’m in the middle of a Bittorrent download. I can tell the Ubuntistas have been waiting for this one.
I’ll be downloading it and kicking the tires. I’m really hopeful that this might be the first version I can readily recommend to church administrators and ministers.
The main ubuntu.com […]
and the Church of Stop Shopping.
I’ve been following him/them for quite a while.
Love the look. (UUEnforcer, are you taking notes?) Love the message. Love the music.
Here’s a movement I could believe in. Heck, I’d show up on Sunday. And it looks like Reverend Billy is on tour.
Remember: Shopping keeps the demons in the zoo . […]
When I feel down, I watch The Young Girls of Rochefort, a lovely Jacques Demy vehicle for Catherine Deneuve, Gene Kelly, George Chakiris and others. With Michel Legrand behind the music, what can go wrong?
Taste a bit at YouTube. And a bit more (but Kelly was dubbed.) And this, but subtitles would help. If […]
A return reader asks:
Do people living in D.C. ever bump into politicians out in public? Have you? Or do they stay in the House and Senate like hermits?
Well, until this new Day Job, I’ve never worked downtown so that’s a limiting factor. I did take the bus to Georgetown for Old Day Job and passed […]
You, Dear Readers, know I want my home, the District of Columbia, to have full voting representation in Congress. There’s something deeply un-American about a body controlling my city’s fundamental affairs where none of the residents have a voice with vote. But I’ve written about that before.
The DC-Utah plan — where each would get […]
Peace I pray upon the dead, the wounded, the frightened and the afflicted in Blacksburg, Virginia.
Hubby and I were having Thai last night when he asked me if I was going to church today. I said no, that I had taxes to do, that I had laundry to do and that — being the week after Easter; also known as Low Sunday or Quasimodo Sunday, but no fair swinging from […]
One of the documents in the UUA Board of Trustees meetings packet is the Openness Implementation Committee Report (PDF). It notes some limitations to their transparency work.
For example, the Congregations Come First (CCF) Task Force web page does not indicate when or where it will meet. In an interesting attempt at openness, the CCF created […]
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