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Teaching. | BeyondPlastic
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An attempt to make sense of the plastic in my life and to move beyond it. Posted by: David McKay. August 31, 2014. Teaching is not an easy profession. There are things to consider. Many things. I will make you a list:. Learning how to write a list. Why you should write lists. Agreeing to meetings, even when all you really want to do is have some time to yourself in your classroom so you can make lists. Setting the alarm clock. Double-checking that you set the alarm clock. What’s for lunch? Responsibility...
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Are We Sinking or Disappearing? | BeyondPlastic
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An attempt to make sense of the plastic in my life and to move beyond it. Posted by: David McKay. March 7, 2015. Are We Sinking or Disappearing? Miami is changing. Heard about that ‘climate change’ thing? How it takes a while to come around? You know, like glacier slow kind of takes a while? Well, I got news for ya – glacier slow has accelerated. It’s not slow anymore. Glaciers are disappearing. You know what they do when they disappear? Read about it here:. Old ice in Arctic vanishingly rare. NASA’...
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A Thought on Thoreau and Walking… | BeyondPlastic
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An attempt to make sense of the plastic in my life and to move beyond it. Posted by: David McKay. January 23, 2013. A Thought on Thoreau and Walking…. I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least — and it is commonly more than that — sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements. So said Henry David Thoreau in The Atlantic, June 1862. I found this quote and the subsequent link in a recent. What is...
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Plastic Bottles! Water Shortages! Is it Time to Panic?! | BeyondPlastic
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An attempt to make sense of the plastic in my life and to move beyond it. Posted by: David McKay. March 4, 2015. Is it Time to Panic? 20 million people are going to be out of water in 60 days? Read about it here:. Alarm Bells Toll For Human Civilization As World’s 12th Largest Mega-City To Run Out Of Water In Just 60 Days. The New York Times from February 16, 2015:. Taps Start to Run Dry in Brazil’s Largest City. São Paulo Water Crisis Linked to Growth, Pollution and Deforestation. Antimony, which is fou...
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Connections | BeyondPlastic
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An attempt to make sense of the plastic in my life and to move beyond it. Posted by: David McKay. May 14, 2014. I have been gone a long time from this blog – many adventures while living in a garage in a forest on an island in a sea…. Oil and gas. That’s all we are these days. It’s all about the oil and gas. It’s all petroleum based. Our entire way of life, our entire way of destruction is driven by petroleum. Life once existed without it. For thousands and thousands of years. Tens ...We are just making ...
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One From the Archives: For My Family | BeyondPlastic
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An attempt to make sense of the plastic in my life and to move beyond it. Posted by: David McKay. May 16, 2014. One From the Archives: For My Family. Looking back into the archive, I found this from December 4th, 2011:. I thought of the seventh generation, that saying from a Native American culture. So, of course, I looked into the meaning of those words. I went first to Wikipedia Seven generation sustainability. Even though you and I are in different boats, you in your boat and we in our canoe, we share...
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About Me | 7 In the Ocean
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7 In the Ocean. Living a Plastic-Less Lifestyle. I’m Ryan Elizabeth. My four favorite things: talking about plastic, taking photos. Of nature and food, gardening, and teaching yoga. What’s the point of my blog? Good question. What am I trying to accomplish here? I think I’m still trying to figure that out, but here’s an attempt at three answers:. I want to help create a world where we rely less on single-use plastics. Isn’t there a better way? I want to link food and plastic pollution. Now, I’m on ...
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Like an Energizer Battery… | VegetableYarden in Ferguson, Mo.
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VegetableYarden in Ferguson, Mo. Please leave a comment on our About page. Like an Energizer Battery…. This entry was posted on Sunday, August 5th, 2012 at 11:08 am and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Feed You can leave a response. From your own site. Laquo; Previous Post. Next Post ». Like an Energizer Battery…. August 5, 2012 at 11:52 am. August 5, 2012 at 12:31 pm. August 5, 2012 at 1:34 pm. February 6, 2016 at 4:41 pm. The ordinances will ...