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By taking back the responsibility of our words from the Headmasters, by ceasing to live on their bounty, we step away from the “merely provisional” uses of language and toward genuine accountability. We thereby make a small promise to the future, and take a step toward giving those who come after us cleaner earth to till.
Tending the Digital Commons
hedgehogreview.com
Simple wisdom comes out on top, no matter who you are: The most sustainable product is the one you never bought in the first place.
Overconsumption Is Killing the Planet. What Can We Do?
Richa Syal
This ability to live at the surface, to take the events of daily life with the meanings they present rather than to seek their hidden purpose, to find happiness and joy in what there already is, finds its easiest expression in a pre-Christian age. Indeed, not just a pre-Christian age, but a pre-Buddhist, pre-Platonic, pre-Hinduist, and pre-Confucian one as well.
All Things Shining
Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly
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