The Story of Stuff is a movie written by Annie Leonard who coordinates the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives. It received very positive reviews one of which you can read here.
» read more | add new commentI was thinking today of how the Beatitudes should inform our behavior not only positively but negatively as well. The Beatitudes presents a world of oppressed and oppressor- those who are blessed and those facing woe.
I believe that the call is for us to be, as we act in this world, fighting with the oppressed against oppressive powers. That the contrast isn't between happiness and pain but solidarity and indifference.
Life is full of small decisions each of which can add up to a cumulative result like choosing to take the train instead of driving or using plastic bags for your groceries instead of re-using that canvas bag you got at your last conference.
45 years ago this month a group of people in England, prompted by a single letter written to a newspaper, formally organized themselves and created an institution. Promoting the idea that people should not be tortured or imprisoned for matters of conscience, Amnesty International is one of several movements ignited by a solitary individual and/ or act featured in this music video by Nickelback.
» add new commentIrene Morgan Kirkaldy, 90, who died of Alzheimer's disease August 10 at her home in Gloucester, Virginia, quietly changed history in 1944 when she refused to give up her seat on a crowded Greyhound bus to a white couple. Her case resulted in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation in interstate transportation and sparked the first Freedom Ride in 1947.
Mrs. Kirkaldy's defiance of the discriminatory Jim Crow laws of Virginia came 11 years before Rosa Parks's similar act in Montgomery, Alabama, galvanized the civil rights movement and made her a national icon. Without fanfare, Mrs. Kirkaldy's early case provided a winning strategy for fighting racial segregation in the courts.
...this country has some of the best public water supplies in the world. Instead of consuming four billion gallons of water a year in individual-sized bottles, we need to start thinking about what all those bottles are doing to the planet’s health.For the one week I've been home and two weeks prior while I was in Spain I was inspired by my cousin to carry around and refill the same plastic water bottle. I lost the cap and thought I should make this permanent so I bought a Sigg water bottle from REI.
It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view.
The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts,
it is even beyond our vision.
We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction
of the magnificent enterprise that is God's work.
Nothing we do is complete, which is a way of saying
that the kingdom always lies beyond us.
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