Comments for  Ecokinesis http://www.ecokinesis.com curating ideas for our common future Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:54:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on Transforming Black Friday by Sarah Kear http://www.ecokinesis.com/renew/transforming-black-friday/#comment-51 Sarah Kear Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:54:39 +0000 http://www.ecokinesis.com/?p=314#comment-51 Thanks Dusty for refreshing my memory on what a great education we had at the Faculty of Environmental Studies @ York. Let's connect soon! Thanks Dusty for refreshing my memory on what a great education we had at the Faculty of Environmental Studies @ York. Let’s connect soon!

]]> Comment on Transforming Black Friday by Dustin Davis http://www.ecokinesis.com/renew/transforming-black-friday/#comment-48 Dustin Davis Thu, 30 Dec 2010 04:50:18 +0000 http://www.ecokinesis.com/?p=314#comment-48 Hey Sarah...... Really like your blog...Just looked through a few posts but in this short survey your writing sure makes me appreciate the common skill most of us FES students have internalized; critical thought and the need to see below the surface.....to visualize the strings of the puppeteer and to try to cut those strings and be one's own person.....making conscious and informed choices. Keep up the great work and keep helping others to think deeply. Hey Sarah……

Really like your blog…Just looked through a few posts but in this short survey your writing sure makes me appreciate the common skill most of us FES students have internalized; critical thought and the need to see below the surface…..to visualize the strings of the puppeteer and to try to cut those strings and be one’s own person…..making conscious and informed choices. Keep up the great work and keep helping others to think deeply.

]]> Comment on Transforming Black Friday by Sarah Kear http://www.ecokinesis.com/renew/transforming-black-friday/#comment-47 Sarah Kear Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:58:49 +0000 http://www.ecokinesis.com/?p=314#comment-47 Thanks, Neem! Not being able to "afford cheap" is hard to practice! I have to say you're going beyond what most parents do by teaching your girls the difference between Wand and Need. Even more difficult when we bring planetary health into the equation. . . but one thing at a time! They are still young, and you don't want to bombard them or make them so "fatigued" with the message that they just tune it out. Peace:) Thanks, Neem! Not being able to “afford cheap” is hard to practice! I have to say you’re going beyond what most parents do by teaching your girls the difference between Wand and Need. Even more difficult when we bring planetary health into the equation. . . but one thing at a time! They are still young, and you don’t want to bombard them or make them so “fatigued” with the message that they just tune it out. Peace:)

]]> Comment on Transforming Black Friday by Neem http://www.ecokinesis.com/renew/transforming-black-friday/#comment-31 Neem Mon, 29 Nov 2010 04:04:17 +0000 http://www.ecokinesis.com/?p=314#comment-31 This is such a great article and really hits home with me, a mother of two who has just purged her home of many, many things that we have accumulated over the last 10 years. Many of these things....wedding gifts that have never been used and now have been donated to local charities. Still, with the knowledge of my consumerist addictions as well as my hypocritical behaviour (preaching to my kids about want vs need, and then buying myself a brown leather purse while they are at school learning how to become better citizens of the world - I hope) I have since become sickened with buying. You know we are in a bad state when we scrounge stores looking for something to WANT and buy. It's almost as if I feel like I want to "deserve" something (in the form of "brand new") because I work so hard.... What does this say about how we decide to reward ourselves and what we think about our worth? Even scarier, what messages are we sending our children about their worth and how we reward them? The economy of cheap, has cheapened my sense of worth - and my children's and I'm to blame. While I wait for some collector's intervention, I can only hope that my addiction is broken by the desire not to desire....not to desire cheap. I can no longer afford to buy cheap. This is such a great article and really hits home with me, a mother of two who has just purged her home of many, many things that we have accumulated over the last 10 years. Many of these things….wedding gifts that have never been used and now have been donated to local charities. Still, with the knowledge of my consumerist addictions as well as my hypocritical behaviour (preaching to my kids about want vs need, and then buying myself a brown leather purse while they are at school learning how to become better citizens of the world – I hope) I have since become sickened with buying. You know we are in a bad state when we scrounge stores looking for something to WANT and buy. It’s almost as if I feel like I want to “deserve” something (in the form of “brand new”) because I work so hard…. What does this say about how we decide to reward ourselves and what we think about our worth? Even scarier, what messages are we sending our children about their worth and how we reward them? The economy of cheap, has cheapened my sense of worth – and my children’s and I’m to blame. While I wait for some collector’s intervention, I can only hope that my addiction is broken by the desire not to desire….not to desire cheap. I can no longer afford to buy cheap.

]]> Comment on Career Choice: Personal Shopper or Architect for Humanity? by Fermín Beltrán http://www.ecokinesis.com/renew/career-choice/#comment-7 Fermín Beltrán Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:35:15 +0000 http://www.ecokinesis.com/?p=220#comment-7 Yes. He is a true eco-progressive architect with 'actual' knowledge in the field. Corum's work in the rose fellowship and the plastiki are the kind of concepts that can actually start to make a difference in this world. Simple sustainability concepts like these can teach us a great deal about how to truly implement simple sustainable ideas in buildings. By the way...Cool blog! Yes. He is a true eco-progressive architect with ‘actual’ knowledge in the field. Corum’s work in the rose fellowship and the plastiki are the kind of concepts that can actually start to make a difference in this world. Simple sustainability concepts like these can teach us a great deal about how to truly implement simple sustainable ideas in buildings.

By the way…Cool blog!

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