Garden of Daisies

Environmental Thoughts at MatthewGood.org

April 5th, 2007

A while ago Matthew Good expanded his blog to include a number of authors. This has allowed for more perspective and more variance in topics (my cousin’s blog Bifsniff has taken a similar turn). As of today matthewgood.org has a new author, Meg Fowler who is going to be focused on Environmentalism and Sustainable living. Her first post was excellent. Below are some excerpts but I recommend reading the whole thing through.

When you walk down the aisles of markets and drugstores in our First World nation, you’d think that living in a Land of Plenty really means living in a Land of Product and Packaging. It’s ‘marketing’ and ‘convenience’ and ’safety’ and ‘freshness’ and ‘innovation’, but mostly?

It’s a mess…

At the most committed end of the scale, sustainable choices can dictate every single aspect of how we live our lives…

Realistically speaking, however, most people just aren’t prepared to give it that much thought…

Environmentalism and sustainable living are not “all or nothing propositions” — you don’t have to chain yourself to a tree to help prevent the destruction of forests, or live in a biodome in order to minimize the impact you have on the world around you.

You just have to ask more questions. Give your actions a couple minutes more consideration. Reevaluate a few of your needs. Make different choices where better options exist. Even spend a couple of extra bucks now and then to buy from responsible companies (though you’ll invariably save in the long run.)

I’ll be looking forward to more posts from Meg.

Edit:I have just been informed that Bifsniff is actually just my cousin Frank and my good friend Eoin. Whoops. Ah well. …apparently you guys are doing a great job and appear to be blogging in much greater numbers… *coughcough*

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