Comments on: Brook Trout http://urbanworkbench.com/brook-trout Sustainable Designs for Life Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:41:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: <img src='http://urbanworkbench.com/wp-content/plugins/rpx/images/twitter.png'/> Mike Thomas http://urbanworkbench.com/brook-trout/comment-page-1#comment-3052 Mike Thomas Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:11:28 +0000 http://urbanworkbench.com/?p=2644#comment-3052 Thanks for the link Eva, and it is true that personal change does not equal social change, particularly when it still involves a fully consumerist lifestyle. By the way, the lettuce is still awesome, the basil is great, the squash are doing very nicely and we are happy to be eating vegetables almost exclusively from the garden in the middle of July! Thanks for the link Eva, and it is true that personal change does not equal social change, particularly when it still involves a fully consumerist lifestyle.

By the way, the lettuce is still awesome, the basil is great, the squash are doing very nicely and we are happy to be eating vegetables almost exclusively from the garden in the middle of July!

]]> By: EJ http://urbanworkbench.com/brook-trout/comment-page-1#comment-3050 EJ Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:39:02 +0000 http://urbanworkbench.com/?p=2644#comment-3050 Upping the Stakes Forget Shorter Showers Why personal change does not equal political change by Derrick Jensen WOULD ANY SANE PERSON think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have ended slavery or brought about the eight-hour workday, or that chopping wood and carrying water would have gotten people out of Tsarist prisons, or that dancing naked around a fire would have helped put in place the Voting Rights Act of 1957 or the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Then why now, with all the world at stake, do so many people retreat into these entirely personal “solutions”? ... I want to be clear. I’m not saying we shouldn’t live simply. I live reasonably simply myself, but I don’t pretend that not buying much (or not driving much, or not having kids) is a powerful political act, or that it’s deeply revolutionary. It’s not. Personal change doesn’t equal social change. Read the rest here: http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/4801 Upping the Stakes
Forget Shorter Showers

Why personal change does not equal political change
by Derrick Jensen

WOULD ANY SANE PERSON think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have ended slavery or brought about the eight-hour workday, or that chopping wood and carrying water would have gotten people out of Tsarist prisons, or that dancing naked around a fire would have helped put in place the Voting Rights Act of 1957 or the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Then why now, with all the world at stake, do so many people retreat into these entirely personal “solutions”?

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I want to be clear. I’m not saying we shouldn’t live simply. I live reasonably simply myself, but I don’t pretend that not buying much (or not driving much, or not having kids) is a powerful political act, or that it’s deeply revolutionary. It’s not. Personal change doesn’t equal social change.

Read the rest here:
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/4801

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