Comments for Jackie Danicki

Comment on Feeling green by scott

scott — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:07:47 +0000

Thank you Jackie! I too have secretly loathed the green-fundamentalists and their train of bandwagons. Half the time it’s just a buzzword to sell more product, or a conversational “in” for college freshmen to get laid. Green is the new black.

I miss the days of it being a nonpolitical nonconsumerist color.

Comment on Feeling green by Shefaly

Shefaly — Wed, 14 May 2008 06:56:20 +0000

I cannot but agree with the broad sentiment of this post.

On that Tesla car: I have to laugh. India, along with China, gets much slack for being increasingly resource-hogging. It would be fun to sell Tesla (which sounds like a Hindi word for basin, but I digress) in India where many cities experience a phenomenon called load-shedding, a euphemism which covers power cuts from 2 to 18 hours, at no pre-announced hours for no pre-announced duration. Yes that is 2 hours to 18 hours WITHOUT electricity in the Indian summer. It _is_ a reality for 90% of India’s population except those who buy generators that run on petrol or diesel and supply 24 hour power to run fridges, fans, airconditioners.

At some level, people at a basic level of living have less resource use and more ideas about reuse and recycle than those who do not _need_ to think.

Comment on Feeling green by Lewis

Lewis — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:33:55 +0000

It seems there’s a green-fundamentalism, herd-mentality.

There also seems to be a red-x-show-we’re-good-samaritan-on-facebook mentality everytime there’s a natural disaster. I’m all for alleviating suffering, but issues are complex and simply becoming a “fan”of a cause, or giving $50 and putting up a widget about a global issues seems to carry a bit of narcissism.

Green lapels and red ribbons are great, but convenience and symbols need more more f/u to address issues as complex as Burma.

PS: Good luck w/ your Grater’s withdrawal!

Comment on Feeling green by 5chw4r7z

5chw4r7z — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:10:25 +0000

Regarding the Tesla, do people realize tis going to cost over 100k + and right now driven the way its envisioned only has a range of twenty miles?
Even better is the Volt, pure vaporware that GM has already won awards for. And again will cost 50k+.
So , these green products will have zero impact for the majority of people. And how much worse for the environment are all those batteries.
Best way to be green, don’t buy anything, or buy used. Anything else is usually bowing sunshine out your 455.
Your self-righteous comment - I always notice people are all for conservation and sacrifice.
AS long as its the other guy doing it.

Comment on Work/life balance quote of the day by MJ

MJ — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:46:30 +0000

Believe me, I’m in the vast majority. Maybe this work = play thing is a new economy or tech idea - there are numerous people, in jobs ranging from blue collar to multi-degreed professions, who work out of duty and are not happy about it all the time - but someone has to do these jobs and they must be done properly, well and responsibly - individual feelings don’t matter until things are competently wrapped up. I don’t think that I have ever met anyone in my life who professes to have integrated work and life and feels that way about work - I don’t think this exists in my profession or region.

I see your point about upbringing, though. I work next to a government retiree consultant who drives me INSANE with his 1950s pronouncements on how one must have one job for life - a la going to “Fords” Motor Co or the bank in 1950 and retiring from the same place - and how all of this entreprenurial stuff is nuts. Thank you, welcome to 1980. I have the countervailing tendency to see anything like “work = joy or play” as nutty, flaky, and one of those 20 something ideas Penelope Trunk is trying to get rich off of shilling. Damn it people, pull up your socks, grow up, and do your frakking jobs - and do them well every time! You’ll have time for yourself on some evenings and weekends, suck it up!

Different worldviews.

Comment on Twitter for beginners by Queer in the Cincy

Queer in the Cincy — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:21:51 +0000

Thanks, Jackie. :-) I was wondering.

Oh, funny story, I got your spam protection wrong a second ago. I accidentally wrote 12 is the sum of 1 + 10. Glad I caught that before the gods of wordpress thought i was dumb. LOL

Comment on Table talk by Franziska

Franziska — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:56:17 +0000

I love this meme and will copy it for my own blog, thank you Jackie. I never read the Guardian (too many spelling mistakes to name just one reason) so I would have never come across it.

By the way, you’d totally impress me on a first date :-)

Comment on Feeling green by Franziska

Franziska — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:47:21 +0000

For me the un-word for 2007 and 2008 is “carbon footprint”. Don’t get me started on how governments are making millions out of the whole environmental issue without actually thinking about it and more important investing into worthwhile projects.
It also bugs me when I see celebrities jumping on the whole “green” bandwagon but then jetting around the world in their own private jet. Or eating Kenya beans in their favourite restaurant in London.

Comment on Feeling green by Jackie Danicki

Jackie Danicki — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:42:56 +0000

Yes, and how about “green” products which are manufactured in Australia for sale in the US? Or which come in very small, individual packages for convenience? Or which are labeled with paper price tags, rather than being grouped together near a sign indicating the price?

What’s funny is that the people who take such pride in their “green” credentials are usually the sort who take equal pride in their questioning of corporate BS. Yet they don’t employ the same questioning when it comes to “green” products. (It must also be said that they usually get it wrong in general.)

Thing is, I think the point with this stuff is to take what works for you and leave the rest (”as with any religion,” I’d say if I was in the mood to provoke). But it’s something you have to question and think about, especially before getting self-righteous. I quite loved when Anya Hindmarch launched her “I am not a plastic bag” totes last year, soon countered by “I am not a pretentious twat” totes which sold out (tried to get one, to no avail).

Comment on Feeling green by Paul J.

Paul J. — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:36:55 +0000

The funny thing about S.F.: my last trip out, I was shocked at how much literature was laying around in my hotel room regarding remaining “green”. First off, tons of paper used to convey this message. Further, they ask me to not wash my sheets and towels every night as this would technically not be “green”. Yet, the deliver a newspaper to every damn room, every morning, whether you ask for it or not. How much paper is wasted on this process and how “un-green” is this? I so love when treehuggers contradict themselves with their own process.