If there is one thing I can count on when being home, it’s that I will find at least 2 pairs of shoes at the Salvation Army in Saugus. That place is a shoe mecca. Another pair of doc martens and some short cowboy boots! yeeah!
the mecca for my mind's musings
Globalized industrialized food is not cheap: it is too costly for the Earth, for the farmers, for our health. The Earth can no longer carry the burden of groundwater mining, pesticide pollution, disappearance of species and destabilization of the climate. Farmers can no longer carry the burden of debt, which is inevitable in industrial farming with its high costs of production. It is incapable of producing safe, culturally appropriate, tasty, quality food. And it is incapable of producing enough food for all because it is wasteful of land, water and energy. Industrial agriculture uses ten times more energy than it produces. It is thus ten times less efficient.
— Vandana Shiva (via homininae)
(via sustainable-sam)
“Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don’t plan it. Don’t wait for it. Just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at the men’s store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot black coffee.”
—— the dreamy mr. dale cooper; coffee and life philosophy soulmate
You’re not crazy, the culture is crazy. If it seems insane to you that our culture is systematically dismantling the ecological infrastructure of the planet, yet we pay less attention to that than we do to professional sports (Go Mariners!), that’s because it is insane. If it seems senseless to you that our culture values money and economic productivity over human and nonhuman lives, that’s because it is senseless. If it seems crazy to you that most people spend most of their waking hours working jobs they’d rather not do, that’s because it is crazy. There’s nothing wrong with you for thinking these things. In fact it means you’re still alive.
— Derrick Jensen, walking on water
