7gen Bloc

“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” --Dr. Hunter S. Thompson When it comes to the big global environment problems like the climate crisis, I’m pretty much in the camp that believes we can think our way out of it. That human ingenuity is going to beat the problem. Certainly some personal changes are required, some level of action, and a good amount of making do with less is going to be a part of the solution, but I think that the collective hive mind is going to figure out a way for us to do that without really noticing much that we are.

Time to empty out the in-box and see what riches the gods of information have deigned to deliver unto us upon the quivering wires… Carbon labeling is coming to a product near you. And about time, too. We label for just about everything else under the sun but until now we’ve overlooked what’s by far the biggest elephant in the better shopping room. It’ll take ahwile for these labels to become ubiquitous, but this pachyderm is loose at last and there’s no closing the barn doors now.

Please meet Laurel Peltier, the newest addition to our roster of guest bloggers. Laurel tells us she is a 42 year-old mom of three living in Baltimore, Maryland who writes freelance articles about the environment. She says she used to be a consumer product manager, MBA-types often disparaged by greenies, she notes, but she’s now applying her marketing skills for Mother Earth.

To get the week off to an inspired start, here’s a guest post from protagonist Diana Gabet

Got a bunch of guest posts in the queue so I’m gonna keep ‘em coming... Here are some words from Monique D'Sa, a mother of three green kids and a freshly green husband. Monique is a teacher by trade and is presently at home trying to make the world greener. She lives in Toronto close to public transit and enjoys organic foods, growing vegetables and volunteering. She says her next endeavour is to sell her homebaked cookies made with organic ingredients at the Christmas Craft show!

Let the Friday feast of words continue with this guest post from Sarah Schultz-Nielsen. Sarah is a public librarian and enjoys simple things, like spending time with her husband and dogs, growing raspberries in their yard and watching The Closer on DVD. She was raised on a dairy farm in Maine, which now grows organic vegetables and grass-fed beef.

Here’s a guest post to start our collective Friday from Inspired Protagonista Jack Clifford.

Here’s something you don’t see a whole lot of these days: a new study that says the future looks fairly bright from here. I have to admit I did a double take, then a spit take, then had to take another look to make sure I was reading it right. It’s not that I don’t think we can get to that place where we really want to go, and we’ll walk in the sun. It’s just that you don’t see too many studies whose bottom line is that those of us who have such goofy rose-colored thoughts don’t need to increase our medication.

Welcome to Thursday and this inspired guest post from global protagonist Veronica Bach

Anita Roddick, the crusading entrepreneur who used the Body Shop chain of cosmetics stores she founded to promote causes like ending animal testing and supporting the environment, died in Chichester, England, on Monday. She was 64. The cause was a brain hemorrhage, her family said. –The New York Times, September 12, 2007 That sucks. Goodbye, Anita.