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Could you explain the concept behind "Information Environmentalism" and what you think about it?
"Information Environmentalism" is a term that David Levy, a professor at the University of Washington, has come up with. The idea is that we need to take an active role in deciding what information we're consuming and what it is that needs to stay by the wayside. We can't turn off our computers, nor should we want to. But I do think that we need to take a curatorial attitude towards our information streams and be very realistic about how much time we have to read and consume stuff online.

Have you done that yourself?
I'm trying to, but it's difficult. I love the novelty just as much as everybody else does. It's very, very hard for me to look away from my RSS reader with its constant stream of new stories or new takes on new stories. I'm very much into what everybody else is interested in at any given point in time.

A Time Q&A with Bill Wasike. Full Interview.

"I was talking to the head of school lunch in Baltimore, and he had a field trip where he took some kids out to a peach orchard and he said a significant percentage of kids had never had a fresh peach. They'd only had peaches in syrup, and it blew their minds. And that should not be. Everyone in America should experience a fresh peach."

Michael Pollan, discussing the new documentary Food Inc. on Newsweek. Full Interview.

We should really get that a screening of that film at Dordt.

Apologies for the links and pointing on this post, but I don't have much to say at the moment...
EXCEPT that I'm house sitting for my boss in her beautiful cabin situated remotely in the mountains AND I got a call from Miss Laura Mac notifying that she will be in the area tomorrow evening (just missing the Farmer's Market down the street), but it will be a good dosage of sanity to speak with a good friend in person. Microbrew!

I've started back on Twitter, did some cleaning of those I was following, and added much more to try out. I asked Betsy just a minute ago, when she thought I was being grumpy, to sign on and combat the drivel by posting intelligent and interesting updates but she decided to be a pacificist. Chicks, man. Anyway, those two gems of current events were found through Twitter. SO, you should join Twitter - Carmela, Ross and Jess especially - and act like an educated person.