Archive for the ‘ Consumption ’ Category

Would you trade your house for more happiness?

Yesterday for one of my classes we read a paper (Lawn, P. 2001. “Scale, prices, and biophysical assessments” Ecological Economics 38, 369–382) that said you can have sustainable development (whatever that means, now) while maintaining the same level of happiness in the current society. It makes me wonder if people would be happier if they [ READ MORE ]

Secular Humanists Should Be Vegetarians

One thing we atheists seem to pride ourselves more and more these days over religious folks is our sense of morality – if we do good without the need for a supreme supernatural overseer to tell us to, then we must be morally superior. Is this really so I wonder? For starters, do [ READ MORE ]

Living Modestly Is Not Uncomfortable

I hate that living modestly is starting to be equated with disregarding the comforts that we’ve been given… instead of a noble and earth saving way of life. I have a group of friends who all live together. In a maximum 6 person house (4 “real” bedrooms) there are 13 people. They have no [ READ MORE ]

Running on air

Best. Idea. Ever. All we need now are for the regulations of the US crash testings to be lowered and we can all run on air powered cars! It also doesn’t run that fast, but honestly - if the amount of people that drove within areas that are about 50 - 60 km/hr had one of [ READ MORE ]

Running The Numbers

I’ve always underrated a lot of art. I underrated the importance of art classes, art galleries and the meanings that art can portray. I always find it hard to see where the artist is coming from, unless there is really something there that I can relate to. The art that I found today most definitely [ READ MORE ]

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