Sustainable Bonanza

April 22, 2010

Are the ideas behind Earth Day ‘over the hill’ or mainstream?

Filed under: General — Tags: , — Kirsten @ 11:27AM

In a world where everyone seems to be trying to gain clout by claiming ‘greenness’ one would think that the concepts which drove the founding of the first Earth Day 40 years ago must not only be in the forefront of our minds, but prevalent everywhere we look.  While there does seem to be a growing number of individuals whose lives and work is towards the betterment of the planet, have we yet reached the tipping point that care for the planet and each other is a mainstream, fully-embraced concept? (more…)

April 21, 2010

Privacy

Filed under: Economic Anthropology — Tags: , , , — Kirsten @ 12:05PM

While catching up on one of the episodes of House, MD that occurred while I was away in Haiti, I noticed a theme that flowed quite well with my experience. So much so that I paused the video and began to write.

The theme was ‘privacy.’ While House and his team had a short debate on the topic and whether it was a modern innovation, totally unnecessary or socially irrelevant, I began to think of my visit to the town of Cabaret just outside of Port-au-Prince. (more…)

April 14, 2010

Taxes

Filed under: Economic Anthropology — Tags: , , , , — Kirsten @ 12:19PM

My Facebook status reads: Taxes
Steve responds: Spends

As I tried to think of a funny way to continue this conversation the words that came to mind were ‘Drains’ or ‘Exhausts.’  While debating, my internal semantics critic began to shout.  “Do you realize,” the critic asked “that all of those words are about draining and taking away?!” (more…)

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