http://flourishonline.org/2009/12/environmental-sustainability-where-you-live/ Reviving Lives and Landscapes Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:32:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://flourishonline.org/2009/12/environmental-sustainability-where-you-live/comment-page-1/#comment-1727 Tracey Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:06:45 +0000 http://flourishonline.org/?p=1579#comment-1727 I think it is so hard to resist the urge to leave what we disagree with behind rather than fighting to change it. I think, possibly, this could be a contributing factor in how transient Americans are. Seems like everyone is on the move, all the time. If we dislike the school district or the proximity of the freeway, the weather or the neighbors, we hit the road. Staying put offers us the opportunity to change things that we normally would just move away and forget about. Joanna is so right, NO place or people should be abandoned. I think it is so hard to resist the urge to leave what we disagree with behind rather than fighting to change it. I think, possibly, this could be a contributing factor in how transient Americans are. Seems like everyone is on the move, all the time. If we dislike the school district or the proximity of the freeway, the weather or the neighbors, we hit the road. Staying put offers us the opportunity to change things that we normally would just move away and forget about. Joanna is so right, NO place or people should be abandoned.

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]]> http://flourishonline.org/2009/12/environmental-sustainability-where-you-live/comment-page-1/#comment-1722 Joanna Pritchard Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:14:16 +0000 http://flourishonline.org/?p=1579#comment-1722 Thank you Tracey for helping us think through the tensions of do-able sustainability! So true that no place or people should be abandoned; if the community is unsustainable, polluted, polluting, dangerous, etc, we are not helping by moving away. A great call to mindfully be a good neighbor. Thanks for the hands on suggestions. Thank you Tracey for helping us think through the tensions of do-able sustainability! So true that no place or people should be abandoned; if the community is unsustainable, polluted, polluting, dangerous, etc, we are not helping by moving away. A great call to mindfully be a good neighbor. Thanks for the hands on suggestions.

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