Ethical Consumption
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Shopping for change
Watching coverage of the Rana Plaza factory collapse outside Dhaka, Bangladesh, in April 2013 was a startling wake-up call for many. As the death toll…
The captive animal entertainment industry
The captive animal industry is almost exclusively oriented towards human entertainment, even while words like “education,” “research,” and “conservation” are commonly used. The fusion of…
Ethical consumption is futile
Two common articulations of ethical consumption in our milieu are meat-free living and reliance on fair-trade, organic products. The person who decides to take up…
Veganarchism
The debate between the merits of so-called lifestyle activism versus those of revolutionary action is a hot-button issue on the left. There are those content…
Free software and ethical consumption
In September 1983, the GNU Project was born. GNU was to be a new kind of operating system: the first one with an explicit ethical…
Sustainability and business – not such strange bedfellows after all
Sustainability has entered the modern lexicon in a significant way. Business people and those who teach business are increasingly employing the term, once used almost…
Saving Your Fingers
It was a cold night, even for October. I had brought gloves and a scarf, and my pea coat had buttons I knew how to…
These are the Lines They Make in the Light
At night I hang my paper dolls across the ceiling – they sway like dancing children by the open window They are charcoal slivers when…
Many Little Eyes
The other day I ran across a naked man who had a rather wide beard. I was in the field, cutting hay, and he came…