Any current or former seminarian will know about those d**d growing edges. Places where you can improve, explore, consider. And since public self-reflection is both a discipline for Holy Week and honored in the New England Christian tradition, here are some of my next steps for greener living. If that’s not too sick making.
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Tap water is cheap, democratic (in that water authorities provide a public good) and remarkably safe. It doesn’t take enormous amounts of oil to be bottled and shipped. Apart from the rare, unavailable bottle — mostly when I’m hot and exhausted in tourist areas of D.C. and there’s no fountain, or when I’m visiting someone’s […]
The pressure on world grain production — crop failures, diversion of biofuel production — has created huge price increases and I have a hard time imagining how millions of the world’s poorest people will manage to eat when they get priced out of the cheapest food available.
Point one: Cyclone and storm damage leaves Bangladesh’s […]
I’m a half-pound under 210, meaning I’ve passed the goal I set for myself to meet by the end of March.
Just a little happy boasting. But I continue to remember those who are having a harder time being the healthy weight they hope and work to be.
I just mentioned Project Runway: a delightful show with tons of pluck that enlivens an industry that I want far, far away from me. (I enjoyed Six Feet Under, too, but that doesn’t mean I trust funeral homes now.) The unspoken assumption of the show is that women are decorative and probably vain, and […]
Just a personal note that I’m now down twenty-three pounds of a goal of forty-six pounds of weight loss. Fat loss really. (Who needs biodiesel?) That makes me my lowest weight in my thirties.
Plain, undramatic accountability has been key for me, so I mention it. And a little prayer goes out for those who […]
You could use the Calorie King toolbar to look up the nutritional information of food — I record everything I eat — but I think that takes up too much monitor space.
Instead, I added Calorie King as a search engine in the pull-down search engine bar at the upper right hand side of my browser. […]
The Web site for Indianapolis Star reports today about a flagship former Methodist Church’s conversion to secular use.
But see about a half way down to read how the old 1911 All Souls Unitarian Church building — which the church left for new (and current) digs in 1959 — became “a combination of residences and studios.”
The […]
I confess one effect I didn’t see from having so much of our manufacture outsourced to China is inflationary pressure. If China gets the chill, we get a cold. In case you need another reason to support United States industry (or your own national industry if you’re reading from outside the United States) see today’s […]
The Unitarian Universalist Church of Akron blog considers the Story of Stuff video, which you can watch online, download or read the transcript. (PDF link) It has been well-received but there’s something in it that deserves to be uplifted.
A candid, postwar quotation from retailing analyst Victor Lebow: “Our enormously productive economy . . . demands […]
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