Thursday, November 13, 2008

What Does "Sustainable" Mean?


The media is telling us uncertain times are ahead. The polar ice cap is melting, the economy is collapsing, the stock market is crashing, we're not sure what's going to happen next. We've screwed up above and below. Even the shrimp seem to be running from all of this. We're at a turning point that's hard to figure out, and even harder to articulate.

Welcome to e.a.t.BlogTM. An oasis of communication in a sea of noise. The middle ground, between the extreme and the apathetic, inhabited by most of us.

e.a.t.® stands for environmental and tasty, which really sums up what we're going to talk about in this blog. Along with my regular posts and the help of occasional guest bloggers, my hope is to create a conversation with you, the consumer, on a full range of topics that relate to issues of sustainability, health, the food we eat, social and corporate responsibility and responsible consumption, among other things, and how these issues impact our daily lives.

Perhaps we can explore the 'idea' of sustainability using a little ancient wisdom which tells us that our 'tragedy' is that we must fit into a world not of our own making, yet must care more what we do to it than what it does to us... wisdom which says how we choose to live our lives expresses a fundamental choice about the kind of world we want to live in.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Oceans Green said...

Hi,

We ran across your website and i read it more interesting “Environmental Packaging”, thank you for the ideas you shared i learn a lot from it. We'll come back often.

Once again, thank you very much!

Regards,

Oceans Green

April 10, 2009 8:58 AM  

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