Bitterjug’s blog

The Wise are aware of the Whole
while interacting with the parts
this is how they can help without harming.
I found this today in my Timothy Freke edition of Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching; the end of verse 28.

Wake Up, Freak Out – then Get a Grip from Leo Murray on Vimeo.
This is an excellent short animated film that talks about the bits of climate science we don’t often hear about, and what they really mean: not what they mean scientifically, but what real impact they will have on our very own very [...]

“My mum died four years ago and I have already thrown away all the jumpers she knitted for me.”
So begins an old blog entry I found today, loitering in the drafts folder since November last year. I’m publishing it now, unfinished (see the last paragraph), exactly as I found it. I think it speaks to [...]

Despite the greenwash, Tetrapaks are made from a three-part composite of cardboard, polyethylene plastic and aluminum foil. The cardboard fiber can be separated for reuse in paper products and, I’ve read, there are some limited uses for the resulting aluminum-polyethylene mixture. And it takes energy to separate them. A quick scan of the web today [...]

Here’s an interesting and informative video about what choices we make regarding the possibility of global catastrophes within our lifetime.

Got ten minutes? Watch it.
Not got ten minutes? What the hell are you doing reading my blog? The only possible reason you don’t have ten minutes to inform yourself about the most important choice you ever [...]

A while back I posted an entry here about home-cooked Kenyan maize dish called Ugali and how this had given me a sense of connection with my time in Kenya. Well today I’m celebrating the fact that this photo (which I published on Flickr under a Creative Commons licence that allows it to be reused [...]