My Fair Share

GO GO GO.
Go by bus. Go vegetarian. Go get a life – partner or friend to live with.
Until a tiny minority of us do ALL of these things and set an example, why should the McMansioners (both in fact and aspiring) of this world change their way of being in this world?
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90% reduction? How simpatico! FSI’s 5.10.5.10 is all about measuring, and the environmental footprint bit (the first 10) calls on members to think about reducing the size of their individual footprints by ten per cent each year until they can do no more. Like all things FairShare, it leaves the details [...]

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I heard Margaret Somerville (2006 Massey Lecturer) speak in Adelaide a few nights ago. She advocates, among other things, an ethic of Wise Restraint. This feels to me similar in affect to my latest personal motto (bon motto, I hope): Think and Stop.
There are a lot of things we should (yes, should) [...]

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