Just say NO to offshore drilling

April 30, 2010 @ 5:55 pm

[If you want to bypass my short rant and get right to petitions and articles, scroll down to get right to the links at the end of this article]

Only a few days after getting upset about Obama’s reversed stance to allow offshore drilling on the East Coast, I read the headlines about what will likely become the biggest and most disastrous oil spill ever.

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On the laughable hypocrisy of 'The Office' (via General Electric) telling you what’s best for your health and the environment

April 20, 2010 @ 10:38 pm

From today’s Wall Street Journal:

What Your TV Is Telling You to Do: NBC Universal’s Shows Are Sending Viewers Signals to Recycle, Exercise and Eat Right. Why?

That’s a question I asked myself a few months ago when I was watching one of my favorite shows, “The Office.” I remember getting a funny feeling watching a scene in which office manager Michael Scott asks the employees for ideas on how they might be better citizens via volunteerism. Then a few weeks later, Dwight harangues fellow employees to recycle as a recycling-obsessed mascot called “Recyclops.” As someone who’s watched “The Office” since the first episode, I also noticed that there sure seem to be a lot of episodes in which people get wasted and it’s depicted as a good time had by all (…except once, when white-trash Meredith, the office alcoholic, lights her own hair on fire at a party. Even so, Meredith’s punchlines revolve more around her twisted sexual misadventures more than they do alcohol-related bummers like loss of a job, DUIs or psoriasis of the liver.)

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Reaching people about veganism: experiences of a 6-month vegan

April 13, 2010 @ 12:37 am

Although I was a vegetarian for three years after college, I went vegan about six months ago. So much has happened since then and I’ve learned so much that it’s impossible to recap it all in a single blog post. In fact, it’s hard to even keep these posts short since I have so much to say. So my strategy is to blog about veganism more in “chunks,” then eventually collate it all into a website.

One of the coolest things about going vegan for me is meeting other like-minded people and having a positive ripple effect on others on the curious. I recently got an email from a vegan that reads my posts and, with her permission, I’ve reprinted her questions here. My responses and thoughts on this follow.

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