Andree Collier Zaleska's Facebook profile

Andrée Collier Zaleska plays guitar and mandolin, speaks Czech, loves camping, hiking, snowshoeing and swimming, and is mom to Kuba and Simon. Andree is the "practical philosopher" for the project; who muses on the bigger questions without losing track of what has to get done this week. more 

 

 
 
Ken Ward's Facebook profile

Ken Ward is a climate campaigner and carpenter, leader of the JP SongFest and father of Eli. He has many entrepreneurial ideas (not all of them practical), is an inveterate tinkerer (not everything works) and eco-curmudgen of the project. more


 

 

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Browsing Archive: June, 2009

Love in a time of Cataclysm

Posted by Kenneth Ward on Thursday, June 18, 2009,
The intro question for the first gathering of 350.org activists in Massachusetts last week was, “how do you feel, personally, about climate change?” Having worked on the agenda I should have been prepared, but it still stumped me.

When I spoke, it was a distillation of five years of hard thinking and writing; truthful, but packaged. We are offered, I said, a choice between deniel – the sort of blind optimism that Waxman-Markey cheerleaders purvey – or deep despair – the feeling one g...
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Recycling a House

Posted by Andrée on Thursday, June 18, 2009,
In May of 2008, the property at 133 Bourne St., Boston, Massachusetts was purchased from HBHC Bank by myself and Ken Ward.  Ninety-nine years old at the time, it had served the neighborhoods of Jamaica Plain and Roslindale, as both a corner store and a family dwelling, for a century.  At the time of purchase, the house had been abandoned, foreclosed, and uninhabited for four years.  It would require an almost total rehab, but seemed to hold immense potential, with space aplenty for a blended ...

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Why do US environmentalists remain irrationally commitedd to a losing strategy?

Posted by Kenneth Ward on Thursday, June 11, 2009,
Watching the remains of a movement strain our every organizational fiber to advance a climate bill we know is a travesty reminds me of G.K. Chesterton’s observation about sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

Waxman-Markey ought to be opposed by U.S. environmentalists for obvious and pragmatic reasons—street arguments, if you like. In the topsy-turvy world of U.S. climate advocacy, however, political lessons wrung from decades of hard experi...


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Browsing Archive: June, 2009

Love in a time of Cataclysm

Posted by Kenneth Ward on Thursday, June 18, 2009,
The intro question for the first gathering of 350.org activists in Massachusetts last week was, “how do you feel, personally, about climate change?” Having worked on the agenda I should have been prepared, but it still stumped me.

When I spoke, it was a distillation of five years of hard thinking and writing; truthful, but packaged. We are offered, I said, a choice between deniel – the sort of blind optimism that Waxman-Markey cheerleaders purvey – or deep despair – the feeling one g...
Continue reading ...
 

Recycling a House

Posted by Andrée on Thursday, June 18, 2009,
In May of 2008, the property at 133 Bourne St., Boston, Massachusetts was purchased from HBHC Bank by myself and Ken Ward.  Ninety-nine years old at the time, it had served the neighborhoods of Jamaica Plain and Roslindale, as both a corner store and a family dwelling, for a century.  At the time of purchase, the house had been abandoned, foreclosed, and uninhabited for four years.  It would require an almost total rehab, but seemed to hold immense potential, with space aplenty for a blended ...

Continue reading ...
 

Why do US environmentalists remain irrationally commitedd to a losing strategy?

Posted by Kenneth Ward on Thursday, June 11, 2009,
Watching the remains of a movement strain our every organizational fiber to advance a climate bill we know is a travesty reminds me of G.K. Chesterton’s observation about sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

Waxman-Markey ought to be opposed by U.S. environmentalists for obvious and pragmatic reasons—street arguments, if you like. In the topsy-turvy world of U.S. climate advocacy, however, political lessons wrung from decades of hard experi...


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