I remember very little from my senior year of high school. I remember even less from AP Environmental Science, first period (when I showed up). Just one story sticks in my mind. I’ll set the scene for you. The year is 1798. America is barely a generation old, and madness reigns in a French Republic [...]
Archive for the ‘Collaborative Consumption’ Category
9 Jan
Thoughts on Minimalism and Collaborative Consumption
Every once in a while, I like to take a sabbatical from things. These self-imposed bouts of minimalism have shaped my relationship with items. A teenage summer adventure riding the Greyhound and hitchhiking through the Western United States and Canada, punctuated by a 230 mile, 20 day backpack through the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. [...]
25 Nov
Collaborative Consumption: The Answer for Occupy?
Across America and around the world, the self-proclaimed 99% occupy parks and civic centers, facing the uncertain prospect of a forced eviction that could come at any moment. Whatever your politics, it’s difficult to remain impartial as videos of pepper-sprayings proliferate on YouTube, and the New York Times publishes a former Poet Laureate’s account of [...]
