Given the catastrophes of the past few months, I want to spend a bit of time today reflecting on how I'm factoring the climate crisis into my personal actions right now. A lot of corporate and special interests money is spent distracting us from the sobering climate crisis reality of our time, and I'm often … Continue reading Reflections on Sustainable Products and Societal Change
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How to Do a Libation for Gaia
That great mundane divinity, the Earth, is the common Hestia of Gods and people. This divinity, on whose fertile surface reclining, as on the soft bosom of a mother or a nurse, we ought to celebrate with hymns, and incline to with filial affection, as to the source of our existence.Theophrastus, tr. Thomas Taylor, VII … Continue reading How to Do a Libation for Gaia
Merch, Minimalism, and Revering the Earth
Humans are the only animal that leaves its trash everywhere is a phrase with many variants. I often see it online set against photographs of foxes choking on plastic bags, dead gulls’ stomachs burst open with straws and legos, or the ocean as it exists today outside of the polished documentaries, plastic bobbing up and … Continue reading Merch, Minimalism, and Revering the Earth