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  1. Posted by Jordyn L. on January 26, 2012 at 8:27 pm

    I am visiting you from my blog, The Green House. I am a cloth-diapering, recycling, upcycling, composting, reusable bag carrying, carpooling, simple living, minimalistic SAHM of 3 young children. Found you through Reduce Footprints Meet & Greet Monday.

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    • Posted by argentumvulgaris on January 26, 2012 at 8:37 pm

      @Jordyn, welcome to my humble home. You are the second new contact that has made herself known from the meet and Greet. I have checked many of the sites listed, but haven’t finished yet. Thanks for taking the time to comment.

      AV

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  2. Posted by sbknight on June 4, 2012 at 4:57 pm

    Hello my friend. I see you are keeping things interesting on your blog. I really liked your post on the impact of the microwave on food. I admit, it was rather scary to read that but then again, I hardly use mine at all. I prefer to cook my food. Anyway, it has been a while since I last visited and thought I would “be green, and say something.” I hope you enjoyed Born of Blood.

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  3. Posted by argentumvulgaris on June 5, 2012 at 10:19 am

    >Brian, thanks for the revisit, I have remedied my procrastination over the book. Thanks for jogging my memory.

    AV

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  4. Posted by Steven Earl Salmony on June 17, 2012 at 12:43 pm

    If we agree to “think globally” about climate destabilization and at least one of its consensually validated principal agencies, it becomes evident that riveting attention on more and more seemingly perpetual GROWTH could be a grave mistake because we are denying how economic and population growth in the communities in which we live cannot continue as it has until now. Each village’s resources are being dissipated, each town’s environment degraded and every city’s fitness as place for our children to inhabit is being threatened. To proclaim something like, ‘the meat of any community plan for the future is, of course, growth’ fails to acknowledge that many villages, towns and cities are already ‘built out’, and also ‘filled in’ with people and pollutants. If the quality of life we enjoy now is to be maintained for the children, then limits on economic and population growth will have to be set. By so doing, we choose to “act locally” and sustainably.

    More economic and population growth are soon to become no longer sustainable in many too many places on the surface of Earth because biological constraints and physical limitations are immutably imposed upon ever increasing human consumption, production and population activities of people in many communities where most of us reside. Inasmuch as the Earth is finite with frangible environs, there comes a point at which GROWTH is unsustainable. There is much work to done locally. But that effort cannot reasonably begin without sensibly limiting economic and population growth.

    Problems worldwide that are derived from conspicuous overconsumption and rapacious plundering of limited resources, rampant overproduction of unnecessary stuff, and rapid human overpopulation of the Earth can be solved by human thought, judgment and action. After all, the things we have done can be undone. Think of it as ‘the great unwinding of human folly’. Like deconstructing the Tower of Babel. Any species that gives itself the moniker, Homo sapiens sapiens, can do that much, can it not?

    “We face a wide-open opportunity to break with the old ways of doing the town’s business…..” That is a true statement. But the necessary “break with the old ways” of continuous economic and population growth is not what is occurring. There is a call for a break with the old ways, but the required changes in behavior are not what is being proposed as we plan for the future. What is being proposed and continues to occur is more of the same, old business-as-usual overconsumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities, the very activities that appear to be growing unsustainbly. More business-as-usual could soon become patently unsustainable, both locally and globally. A finite planet with the size, composition and environs of the Earth and a community with the boundaries, limited resources and wondrous climate of villages, towns and cities where we live may not be able to sustain much longer the economic and population growth that is occurring on our watch. Perhaps necessary changes away from UNSUSTAINABLE GROWTH and toward sustainable lifestyles and right-sized corporate enterprises are in the offing.

    Think globally while there is still time and act locally before it is too late for human action to make any difference in the clear and presently dangerous course of unfolding human-induced ecological events, both in our planetary home and in our villages, towns and cities. If we choose to review the perspective of a ‘marketwatcher’ who can see what is actually before our eyes, perhaps all of us can get a little more reality-oriented to the world we inhabit and a less deceived by an attractive, flawed ideology that is highly touted and widely shared but evidently illusory and patently unsustainable.

    http://​www.marketwatch.com/Story/​story/​print?guid=5690DE5A-B033-11​E1-AB8D-002128049AD6

    This situation is no longer deniable. During my lifetime, many have understood the Global Predicament we are having to confront now, but only a few ‘voices in the wilderness’ were willing to speak out loudly and clearly about what everyone can see. It is not a pretty sight. The human community has precipitated a planetary emergency that only humankind is capable of undoing. The present ‘Unsustainable Path’ has to be abandoned in favor of a “road less travelled by”. It is late; there is no time left to waste. Perhaps now we will gather our remarkably abundant, distinctly human resources and respond ably to the daunting, human-induced, global challenges before us, the ones that threaten life as we know it and the integrity of Earth as a fit place for human habitation. Many voices, many more voices are needed for making necessary changes.

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    • Posted by argentumvulgaris on June 17, 2012 at 6:09 pm

      >Steven, not sure which post you have commented on because you commented on my About page, not the post. Your comments fit several of my posts on a similar theme.

      But, I agree entirely. The whole human paradigm must change. The only part I disagree with is that “After all, the things we have done can be undone,” for much of what we have done is irreversible and the consequences will be long lived.

      Thanks for the comment, appreciated.

      AV

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  5. Posted by ecocred on April 3, 2013 at 7:30 am

    Love your blog, your wit and your logical and fresh approach to eco-green-sustainability topics! Unfortunately I dont get enough time to blog and and check up on blogs…. however your posts are a must read!

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