I remember the last hot dog I ate. I barfed afterwards.
Having been vegan now for going on 6 years, I sometimes wonder why it took me so long to give up eating dead animal flesh. I know why. Meat embodies the values of the consumer culture I grew up in. As much I like to think I'm a nonconformist and free thinker, when it came to meat, I was with the in crowd.
Justin and I skipped the Tuesday Night Criterium to race at the Empire Runner's Summer Track series instead. This was my first track and field event ever. In hopes of doing well at a few duathlons later this year, I'm trying to step up my running game.
There's a lot of talk about ecological design lately. If you look to the periphery of techonological innovation you will see more and more waste being designed OUT of products. Forward thinking designers know that waste is inherently ineffective. In natural systems, when something that is created passes it useful life, the components of that something can be made into something else. For example, when the leaves fall off an apple tree, they fall to the ground, decompose, and eventually become an apple. When you eat the apple, what was once a leaf becomes you.