http://www.wisemandarine.com/trying-to-stop-pulling-the-blanket/ none the wiser Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:59:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 http://www.wisemandarine.com/trying-to-stop-pulling-the-blanket/#comment-9092 mandarine » Blog Archive » Ecojustice challenge Fri, 02 May 2008 05:20:21 +0000 http://www.wisemandarine.com/trying-to-stop-pulling-the-blanket/#comment-9092 [...] fall victim to a very dangerous superstition. A supestition which is destroying the planet, destroying other people’s livelihoods, destroying the livelihood of future generations. We believe that we cannot be happy with less [...] […] fall victim to a very dangerous superstition. A supestition which is destroying the planet, destroying other people’s livelihoods, destroying the livelihood of future generations. We believe that we cannot be happy with less […]

]]> http://www.wisemandarine.com/trying-to-stop-pulling-the-blanket/#comment-9050 mandarine Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:16:47 +0000 http://www.wisemandarine.com/trying-to-stop-pulling-the-blanket/#comment-9050 The concepts are changing fast, though. If someone had been hibernating these past five years and woke up now, they would probably be really suprised at how 'green' everything has become (at least in our speech). Now we need to turn words and intentions into real actions. The concepts are changing fast, though. If someone had been hibernating these past five years and woke up now, they would probably be really suprised at how ‘green’ everything has become (at least in our speech). Now we need to turn words and intentions into real actions.

]]> http://www.wisemandarine.com/trying-to-stop-pulling-the-blanket/#comment-9044 Susan Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:35:31 +0000 http://www.wisemandarine.com/trying-to-stop-pulling-the-blanket/#comment-9044 As always, great analogy. Especially with the news of the food riots in Haiti this past few days. You know my thoughts on trying to live green from other comments I've made to your blogs, so I won't repeat them here. Just wanted to say I dropped in, and as always, I try to live as lightly on the earth as I can; the native american philosophy was to live so lightly on the earth that you left no trace as you passed through. And, for the future generations, aboriginal elders say what we do affects the next seven generations. If only we could get this concept out there!! or have people care that what they do, does matter. As always, great analogy. Especially with the news of the food riots in Haiti this past few days. You know my thoughts on trying to live green from other comments I’ve made to your blogs, so I won’t repeat them here. Just wanted to say I dropped in, and as always, I try to live as lightly on the earth as I can; the native american philosophy was to live so lightly on the earth that you left no trace as you passed through. And, for the future generations, aboriginal elders say what we do affects the next seven generations. If only we could get this concept out there!! or have people care that what they do, does matter.

]]> http://www.wisemandarine.com/trying-to-stop-pulling-the-blanket/#comment-9043 mandarine Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:59:43 +0000 http://www.wisemandarine.com/trying-to-stop-pulling-the-blanket/#comment-9043 I am not so keen on having a lot of traffic here, but if someone wants to take the post and shout it out somewhere populous, they are welcome. I am not so keen on having a lot of traffic here, but if someone wants to take the post and shout it out somewhere populous, they are welcome.

]]> http://www.wisemandarine.com/trying-to-stop-pulling-the-blanket/#comment-9042 Deborah Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:51:36 +0000 http://www.wisemandarine.com/trying-to-stop-pulling-the-blanket/#comment-9042 Hello. I found you through Emily Barton's recent post. Thank you so much for the care you took in laying this out...and especially for the blanket analogy. Very few of us would deprive a child of warmth to serve ourselves...yet this is exactly what we do everyday that we don't get our energy consumption under control. I applaud your conviction. I hope you get a lot of traffic on this post. Thanks! Hello. I found you through Emily Barton’s recent post. Thank you so much for the care you took in laying this out…and especially for the blanket analogy. Very few of us would deprive a child of warmth to serve ourselves…yet this is exactly what we do everyday that we don’t get our energy consumption under control. I applaud your conviction. I hope you get a lot of traffic on this post. Thanks!

]]> http://www.wisemandarine.com/trying-to-stop-pulling-the-blanket/#comment-9032 mandarine Sun, 06 Apr 2008 05:25:42 +0000 http://www.wisemandarine.com/trying-to-stop-pulling-the-blanket/#comment-9032 Please do. Meanwhile, I will be preparing more joyful articles on what we can do about it. Because I am convinced there is a brand new life ahead of 'happy sobriety' (as eco-pioneer Pierre Rabhi calls it). Please do. Meanwhile, I will be preparing more joyful articles on what we can do about it. Because I am convinced there is a brand new life ahead of ‘happy sobriety’ (as eco-pioneer Pierre Rabhi calls it).

]]> http://www.wisemandarine.com/trying-to-stop-pulling-the-blanket/#comment-9031 Emily Barton Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:37:44 +0000 http://www.wisemandarine.com/trying-to-stop-pulling-the-blanket/#comment-9031 Depressing, yes, but someone needs to say it. So glad you're around to do so, and I absolutely love your blanket and young child analogy. No other word can describe it except "perfect." Thank you, and I hope you get hundreds of thousands of readers to this post. I'll help out with about twenty by linking to my blog in my next post (and I'll also link to this post when I start my ecojustice challenge later this month, if you don't mind). Depressing, yes, but someone needs to say it. So glad you’re around to do so, and I absolutely love your blanket and young child analogy. No other word can describe it except “perfect.” Thank you, and I hope you get hundreds of thousands of readers to this post. I’ll help out with about twenty by linking to my blog in my next post (and I’ll also link to this post when I start my ecojustice challenge later this month, if you don’t mind).

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