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Wrapping Up
Today is the last day of our Confessions of an Eco-Sinner book club. Toshio and I would like to thank author Fred Pearce for his participation this month, as well as you, bookies, for being part of our first ever summer Biter Book Club series.
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The Elephant in the Green Room
Nobody wants to tell parents-to-be that having a kid is possibly the worst thing they could do for the environment. Think of all the waste that baby will create over its lifetime, or its energy use, or even something as specific as its printer paper use.
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Label Me
On Monday, Pearce posed the question: "What part of my book shocked or provoked you the most?" I've been meditating on this question quite a bit this week, and if I answered it today, I think I would say that generally, Confessions got me thinking about how often I just take labels for granted - fair trade, made from recycled materials, organic cotton, bamboo - without thinking
Submitted by hsnavely on Tue, 08/25/2009 - 11:00pm.
Changing Your Eco-Sinning Ways
I wouldn't call Confessions a cheery picture of our resource use and waste, but it seems like a pretty accurate one, considering all the incredible firsthand research Pearce did.
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Final Question from the Author
What part of my book shocked or provoked you the most?
-From the author, Fred Pearce
-From the author, Fred Pearce
Submitted by mroemer on Sun, 08/23/2009 - 11:00pm.
The heartless actions of big, conscience-less corporations always get to me, so my vote goes to the chapters discussing the African mines and sweatshops in Asia - the fact that people are dying for our gold-accented drop earrings and nautical-themed pashmina Afghans.
The argument for incinerating paper rather than recycling it. My father, the ultimate dark greenie, has shown a lot of recycling skepticism over the years, but I always chalked it up to general old man cynicism. Now, I'm having second thoughts.
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R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Since Alison's on Friday duty, this will be my last Book Club post (tear). I had a really great time reading this book, and it was fun to throw out questions and comments and get your guys' views on it too - I've never actually been in a book club, so this was all new to me.
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Confessions of a City Chick
Pollan’s guidelines seem reasonable and do-able, but at the end of the day, wouldn’t it be great to grow your own stuff? As a born and bred city girl, I know little about gardening, but would love to try. At least fresh herbs - y’know, mint for my mojito, et al - but I've managed to kill rosemary, a notoriously hardy plant.
Submitted by alara on Tue, 07/28/2009 - 11:00pm.
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I see your point but some of us "city folk" have neither the space nore the time to grow food ourselves. Economically speaking its much more expensive to "grow your own" if you are doing it on a small scale as well.
I thought this book was very informative. I take a keen interest in all things health related. With the way obesity is running rampant it really pays to watch what you eat, before you become part of that statistic. We as a society definitely need to "take back" control of our eating and fitness habits.
I was reading an article a couple days ago where they examined all the things that changed over the past 2 decades that may have contributed to the explosive growth in national obesity figures and the final conclusion seemed to be something like, "start mowing your own lawn, and hide the remotes". No big surprise there. Laziness is a huge part of the problem, and eating the wrong foods only exacerbates things.
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I just started growing my own food this year. I have only grown a few things to start but I will say I didn't think it was very hard and I am excited about the possibilities now that I have discovered how easy it is. I live in an apartment and so the only outdoor space I have is a deck. It's not huge but it's big enough for a few pot and a table and two chairs. This year we grew herbs (oregano, sage, basil and chives), tomatoes, green peppers, jalapeno peppers and lettuce. These were very easy to grow. I couldn't give you the exact pounds because we're still getting them but I've been able to use them in quite a few meals. As for cost, these were very inexpensive and we got back a lot more in produce than we spent. Like I said, next year we plan on adding a lot more to our garden including some fruit (strawberries seem like they should work). Gardening is an intimidating endeavor but once you start you get a sense of pride from it and you realize that it's worth the trouble.
Giana: I'm trying to grow some tomatoes on our roof right now, and it's not easy with SF's weather, but I totally agree with you on the pride thing. I've never really grown anything, but my tomatoes are still alive at least!
And the thing about it is, even if my tomatoes stay green, well, no one's gonna come and take me to jail or anything. Lesson learned and I'll try to do better next time. The intimidation goes away once you dig in, methinks.
Economically speaking its much more expensive to "grow your own" if you are doing it on a small scale as well.
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I would say that about 10% of my shopping is done at the supermarket. I'm pretty good about this. I'm at a point where even the produce at the grocery store is tasting really bland, and is certainly less filling to boot!
Difficult to say exactly how much I shop outside of the supermarket, however if I calculate it monetarily I shop about 35% at the farmers' market. I spend approximately $160 per month at the farmers' market and about $300 at the supermarket. Not bad if you ask me.
I think I probably do about half of my shopping outside of the supermarket at this point: we get our CSA on Wednesdays and I try to pick up everything else at the farmer's market on the weekends. I'll be sad when I don't have an alternative again...in the winter, there's just nowhere to get food around here except at the giant markets.
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The Wonders of Wonder Bread
I laughed aloud when Pollan deconstructed the ingredients in Sara Lee White Whole Wheat bread (why would you ever name a baked good “smooth and easy” by the way?). It made me think of how as a grade school kid in the cafeteria I used to squeeze Wonder Bread into tiny cubes - nothin’ but air in there.
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Sort of along those lines, I try to avoid anything that's grape flavor, like popsicles or candy or whatever.
Because what in the world is the flavor grape that everyone seems to use? It bears like 0.1% resemblance to the flavor of an actual grape. It scares me.
How about, 'don't eat anything that has bright orange "cheese" powder on it'. That stuff is really weird. Mac 'n' cheese from a box and cheese puffs are tops on this list. Clearly, that is NOT cheese.
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