Notices by 🌻 Solarpunk Gnome 🌻 (solarpunkgnome@sunbeam.city)

“I made the map as a response to this pervasive myth that we can stop climate change if we just modify our personal behavior and buy more green products,” Engel told GOOD in an email. “Whether or not we separate our recycling, these corporations will go on trashing the planet unless we stop them.”

https://www.good.is/articles/top-100-people-killing-planet

On its face, conscious consumerism is a morally righteous, bold movement. But it’s actually taking away our power as citizens. It drains our bank accounts and our political will, diverts our attention away from the true powerbrokers, and focuses our energy instead on petty corporate scandals and fights over the moral superiority of vegans.

So if you really care about the environment, climb on out of your upcycled wooden chair and get yourself to a town hall meeting. If there’s one silver lining to the environmental crisis facing us, it’s that we now understand exactly the kind of work we need to do to save the planet—and it doesn’t involve a credit card.

https://qz.com/920561/conscious-consumerism-is-a-lie-heres-a-better-way-to-help-save-the-world/

@denikombucha @kavbojka This is why, although I always use lab safety when running my own experiments, I volunteer to be a test subject in lots of studies at the nearby university.

I'm bound to get superpowers at some point if I'm a lab rat long enough. Plus some of them pay pretty well.

Has anyone seen this work on Commons Transition? I think it's from the P2P foundation, but not 100% on that:

https://primer.commonstransition.org/1-short-articles/1-1-what-is-a-commons-transition

#commons #P2P #peertopeer