Common Sense for the New Times
Common Sense for the New Times
This is just a rant about total illiteracy of human behaviour, leading to literally the worst recycling expansion I have seen in my entire career. A contact lens weighs about 25 milligrams, so an entire year’s supply of lenses is…
I wrote this about five years ago, but had no place to publish it. After the topic of his most recent post veered to razors, John Michael Greer suggested I post it. Joy is a thread that runs through our Small and…
I am not a violent man—but I can be quite ‘passionate’, and today I am feeling passion about solar garbage compacters. It may seem an unlikely lens, but garbage compactors are—ahem—very juicy. The passion precipitating post, on TreeHugger, was mostly…
Why is changing behaviour so hard? In this slidecast I share a way of answering that question, and how Compassionate Systems can increase the effectiveness of our work. This was recorded at the Invasive Species forum in Richmond, BC, in…
Orginally published on the Glenbrook North Zero Waste Blog (more about them at the end). I keep a lot of my dry goods in glass jars to keep them fresh and safe from insects. And, of course I hate garbage, so…
Originally published on theTyee.ca. Ever felt guilty for forgetting your re-useable bag at home? Felt the accusing stare of the clerk or fellow shoppers? With the memory of Christmas giving so fresh in our minds, redolent with blister packs and…
Originally published on theTyee.ca. A truly cool city would feature a short stroll to the local worm bin. You and I are caring people. And caring people care about composting, which is why many of us bemoan the fact that…
originally posted on theTyee.ca. Hey coffee drinker, isn’t it time you started mugging it up? We have some amazing technology developing here in Canada. Homegrown high-tech whiz-bang — Nobel Prize material, really. This system is too good to be true:…
We do it with beer. Why not vino? I don’t usually have much difficulty in liquor stores; after all, the only product they sell is one of my favourite things. This time, though, I wanted to buy my red table…