Recently in environment Category

I just read the opening whirlwind manifesto on the blog Streetheart:  Ethics of Graffiti.  The writing's good, and the anonymous author really throws down:

The new McDonalds in your city, the one running on factory farms that keep animals drugged in minuscule cages for their entire lives--were you asked if they could decorate your skyline with their golden arches? And Coca-Cola--the same Coca-Cola that has employed paramilitary groups to murder and torture Colombian workers to break up their union--did they ask you before taking up a patch of your commute bigger than your front yard with one of their advertisements?

He/she's not pulling any punches; see for yourself.  I'm curious to see what comes next.

I love this hopeful passage from Barry Lopez's introduction to Maps of Reconciliation:  Literature and the Ethical Imagination, the latest issue of the beautiful journal Manoa:

"Someone will have to make an outline, draw a map and pass it around, with a pencil and an eraser and no thought of ownership.  The voices of individual authorship and the duly elected will need to give way to the repositories of community wisdom.  For the first time in centuries, wisdom will need to be seated beside intelligence, a second light to cut the deep and unknowable dark."