The Blog
M.L. BATESON
- Jan 23, 2018
SCREEN-FREE?
While I’m plugging away at this month’s challenge, #activismnotapathy, I thought I’d take a minute to have a wee think about last month’s challenge to #switchoffscreens. I think, out of all the challenges I’ve done so far, this was my favourite. It forced me to examine just how pervasive screens (laptops, TV, mobile phones) are in my life - it was as though these things had crept in over the years without me really noticing how much I was letting them control me, as radical a
M.L. BATESON
- Jan 17, 2018
NO MORE STRAWS!
The challenge for January 2018 is #activismnotapathy where we are going to try to spread a little bit of positive change outside of just working on our own habits. I decided that my own little campaign would be to see if I could get one of my favourite local restaurants, La Más Bonita, to stop serving plastic straws with drinks. Luckily, it turns out that I have a friend who knows someone who knows the owners. She offered to pass an email along to them. (I'll include the emai
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