List of Groups for EcoFest

This is a post cause I can't figure out how to make it end up on the classy stuff part
(Hugh maybe only you can put it there?)
any way, here it is and you guys can change things as you see fit

Food Group:
Jamie
Kitt
Pete
Margaret
Adeetje

Individual work to show
Jonathan
Annika
Jordan
Dan
Jen

Local Links
Kristan
Jonathan
Spencer
Adeetje
Dan
Jen

Subversive Acts or Arts?
Kitt
Pete
Spencer
Adeetje
Jordan
Jonathan

I'm sorry in advance if I spelled anybodies name wrong.

branding!

here is an interesting chart that sums up which huge corporations (i.e., Coca-Cola) own all the organic food products (i.e., Odwalla). Yuck.

Recent water treatment feild trip

Medicines in treated water

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/03/09/ST2008030901877.html?hpid=topnews

hey! check it out.

I'm just gonna plug something really quickly:

adeetje and I have a food blog. you should look at it.

xoxo

jamie

Part of the Cradle to Cradle Discussion

"... This devouring impulse in Western culture is comparable, they* maintain to a drug or alcohol addiction: 'Recycling is an aspirin, alleviating a rather large collective hangover... overconsumption.' Or again, 'The best way to reduce any environmental impact is not to recycle more, but to produce and dispose of less.'"
- pg.50, par.2, the last two sentences.
* in reference to Use Less Stuff: Environmental Solutions for who we Really are authors Robert Lilienfield and William Rathje

I was personally intrigued by this line of reasoning, for I too have been brainwashed by the reduce, reuse, recycle tri-force as a bandaid for environmental change. It shows the lack of invent-fulness in our current goals of becoming "green" as a whole. Most solutions simply attempt to add-on or amend products and processes to try and be less-bad. When at the root is really our ridiculous desire to consume anything and everything regardless of its harm to us and our environs.

This is really more or less the thesis the rest of the book is built on, however, it leads me to believe that behavior modification, or "good," "ethical" brain-washing is the key to changing the direction we as a culture are currently headed in. It is no different than branding and sales-pitches in any other sector, we just need to dissemenate the word, get the public in the right heading and business will have to follow.

Of course, getting people to buy and use less of whatever they want is important too.

Cradle to Cradle

"Design a system of industry that will:

-Release fewer pounds of toxic wastes into the air, soil, and water every year
-Measure prosperity by less activity

-Meet the stipulations of thousands of complex regulations to keep people and natural systems from being poisoned too quickly

-Produce fewer materials that are so dangerous that they will require generations to maintain constant vigilance while living in terror

-Result in smaller amounts of waste

-Put smaller amounts of valuable materials in holes all over the planet, where they can never be retrieved." p 62

"The marriage between vision, values, and policy has proved elusive for environmentalists. Most environmental leaders, even the most vision-oriented, are struggling to articulate proposals that have coherence. This is a crisis because environmentalism will never be able to muster the strength it needs to deal with the global warming problem as long as it is seen as a “special interest.” And it will continue to be seen as a special interest as long as it narrowly identifies the problem as “environmental” and the solutions as technical."(from The Death of Environmentalism)

Here are two quotes I collected from the texts that present the Global Warming topic very differently. I can't decide whats more important and useful with my time--to understand the politics or the science. Though somehow I feel powerless to fix the problems we are presented, unless I become more informed. What's most effective, to be an informed artist or citizen?

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