Filed under Ecological Intelligence, More Than Blog · Tagged with Dara O'Rourke, Ecological Intelligence, Food systems, Good Guide, Greg Norris, transparency September 22, 2009 by max · 1 Comment We’ve been thinking a lot here at MTSP about Ecological Awareness – specifically about Life Cycle Assessment and credit report and free Tacoma transparency as a manifestation of the system – our system or production – becoming aware of itself: developing its industrial consciousness. There’s a neat article we linked to some days back more or less about this idea from a Buddhist perspective. In environmental discussion there’s an assumed, sublingual distinction made between the environment and humans both as beings and in terms of the things we make and use. There’s this great line from Michael Lerner at the end credit report and free Tacoma of ‘Environmental Health, Human Healing’, where he’s talking about how environmentalists mention we need to save the world – he says “The Earth doesn’t need saving – we credit report and free Tacoma do.” I think this gets at the issue quite well – we tend to anthropomorphize things far outside of their real existence. credit annual report To know the true reality credit report and free Tacoma of anything it is necessary to be that thing – all we know is ourselves.
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If we’re part of nature – (everything that lives and all of the things those things live on – though we usually picture fields of grass, as though grass were the big, fresh deal) our actions are part of nature. It’s not like Chevron and Target Superstores are organic life forms, but they are ‘naturally occurring’.
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See the same thing with the environmental movement, perhaps. All this doom and gloom about losing our planet – mom’s mad! She’s not going to take credit report and free Tacoma your Target Superstores anymore! As we get older we perhaps realize credit report and free Tacoma that this may not be true.
