Thanks to this post by busycowboy I learned of this video - The Story of Stuff.
It is a great video and the site is filled with important information.
The blog is here.
Personally, I like the absence of her holier-than-though attitude which seems to be a defining trait in a lot of green activists.
You get the point. Everyone needs to find their own path; find the projects that we each can each do well and which excites us. There are so many options that we don’t even have to do something boring! And there are loads of organizations that can help provide direction on specific issues once we get started.
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It is less important what we chose to do than how we do it. To make all these activities add up to more than a list of “teachnological tweakings at the margins,”as Maniates describes it, whatever we each do must be part of a larger effort. We’ve got to get toxics out of cosmetics and reform the health care system and build local community and stop incinerators not as ends in themselves but as part of strengthening an active democracy, as part of transforming the current system to be in the service of community health, ecological stability and social justice.
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