March 11, 2010
Martin and I went to see Amy Goodman and her brother David speak at Tufts a few days ago. During her talk, Amy brought up the Rosa Parks story. Like I did in my essay on the power of small change a few weeks ago, Amy talked about the contrast between the popular imagination of [...]
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February 5, 2010
Fakeplasticfish has a post up about conflict between couples about green living, in which she quotes my post from last week about making green choices together. Beth Terry, the woman behind Fake Plastic Fish, has gone to amazing lengths to cut plastic out of her life. Last year, she produced something like 4 pounds of [...]

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