Tiny Choices Survey: Neil!
By Jenn | June 26, 2009
Vital statistics (name, age, location, link to website/blog)?
Neil, 39, Los Angeles. No website of my own, but here is the one I built for my wife.
How do you reside (apartment or house, roommates)? Are your housing decisions dictated by choice or necessity? Please explain.
Artist loft (=steel shed) at the world’s largest artist community (The Brewery in downtown LA)
How do you travel (transit, car, etc)? Are your travel decisions dictated by choice or necessity? Please explain.
LA = car…. I hate this (I moved here 3 years ago from the UK, and never owned a car until relocating stateside). This is getting sold as soon as I can alter my life so I can avoid the need (The plan? Buy a sailboat and use public transport to get to/from it. Having the boat gives me a place to camp out so I don’t have to commute every day, and the possibility of getting about the planet without fossil fuels).
Tell us about a Tiny Choice you’ve made in your life.
To bail on the consumer/capitalist economy and move to a self-empowered self-reliant existence as outside the status-quo as I can manage
What is the one environmental dilemma you personally struggle the most with?
How to get people to acknowledge the size of the problem and take some f@@king responsibility. Belief that driving a Prius makes you green makes you, as we say in the UK, a wanker.
What is one Tiny Choice you can make in that direction?
Trying to re-work my existence as proof that living well outside the normal paradigm is more interesting, fun and exciting than the norm.
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?
People question most of my existence. F@@k ‘em if they can’t take a joke…
What is the one environmental Tiny Choice you would like every single person to adopt?
Where to start? Take some responsibility and be part of the solution, not the problem… Learn to grow plants, ditch the auto and go bike/public transport, ditch the TV…
Do you feel like you make sacrifices for environmentalism? Please explain.
They are NOT sacrifices! If they are not made, we sacrifice our planet for a f@@king McD’s burger and fries…
Are you generally: optimistic, pessimistic, neutral about environmentalism and the future?
Pessimistic about the chances for most of humanity, optimistic that the system will fail soon enough for the rest of the biosphere to have a chance.
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