Tiny Choices Survey: Aurora Fox
By tinychoices | July 4, 2008
Vital statistics (name, age, location, link to website/blog)?
Aurora Fox, Berkeley, Ca, age 58, http://foxyartstudio.blogspot
How do you reside (apartment or house, roommates)?
House with husband–(inherited house from his family)
Are your housing decisions dictated by choice or necessity? Please explain.
Both–we are choosing to live here in the Bay Area, but we also are here because we are caring for a handicapped relative who lives here.
How do you travel (transit, car, etc)?Are your travel decisions dictated by choice or necessity? Please explain.
I bike & walk mostly. Sometimes the bus or BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) sometimes with a City Car Share car (I choose to not own a car).
Tell us about a Tiny Choice you’ve made in your life.
I didn’t buy anything new for 9 months (except food and medicines).
What is the one environmental dilemma you personally struggle the most with?
Plastics.
What is one Tiny Choice you can make in that direction?
Find alternative for yogurt and cottage cheese containers?
What is the one environmental Tiny Choice you make that people question (in either a positive educational or a negative hassle way) you the most about?
Not buying anything new—this seems to be a radical choice to most people, while for me it was fairly easy…and a consciousness raising around consumerism.
What is the one environmental Tiny Choice you would like every single person to adopt?
BYOB—bring your own cloth shopping bags to all stores–and stop accepting plastic bags.
Do you feel like you make sacrifices for environmentalism? Please explain.
No–I feel like we Americans are extremely spoiled, and we need to share our wealth more if we are all to survive AND we need to consume less non-renewable resources.
Are you generally: optimistic, pessimistic, neutral about environmentalism and the future?
I have my days where I despair–after all—the ice caps are melting! and the climate crisis is already having consequences for us all–I feel like most people are happily fiddling away while the Earth burns, and that makes me frustrated and worried—but mostly I am optimistic. I see many small organizations working for change, and every individual action does count.
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Hi Aurora! Great interview!
Yogurt: have you tried St. Benoit yogurt that comes in the returnable ceramic containers? It’s more expensive, and the containers are small, but it’s an option. Also, it’s ridiculously easy to make your own yogurt. You don’t need a yogurt maker. I’ve been successful using a Thermos to keep it warm the required amount of time. Have you tried that?
Beth
Oh, also, while recycling plastic is not the answer, and is actually downcycling, I will let you know that Oakland now accepts yogurt containers in the blue bin. If Berkeley won’t take them, you can bring yours to my house.
Beth again.
[…] Tiny Choices Survey: Aurora Fox Aurora Fox, Berkeley, Ca, age 58, http://foxyartstudio.blogspot.com/. How do you reside (apartment or house, roommates)? House with husband–(inherited house from his family). Are your housing decisions dictated by choice or necessity? … […]
hey! thanks for publishing my survey answers! and Beth–I have about 50 of those yogurt and cottage cheese containers—and I would love to recycle them in Oakland!
(Now–why can’t I just do that here in Berkeley?) Do you know where they end up once they leave the recycling collection place? just wondering….