Hey Fastfrwrders, Seekers of Utopia, Earthlovers, Children of Pachamama! GUESS WHAT? Fastfrwrd now plants TREES!!! We have just worked out a deal with Trees.org to plant trees at $0.35 per tree in Food Forests in underserved communities. They bring food security and regenerative agriculture principles to people in need around the globe. This multi-pronged approach … Continue reading “Tree Planting”
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The day I learned I was “mad” was also, strangely, the day I realized I could be loved. I basically learned just how bad my mind could get and it wasn’t so bad in the end, the local cable was talking to me, that’s all. I didn’t hurt anybody or embarrass myself too much. It … Continue reading “I Was in a Mental Asylum Because of Climate Change”
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Given that plastic is toxic, all plastic derivatives are more or less unusable which means that every invention involving plastic is also unusable. This is likely 1/5th of all patents, this is a guess. What isn’t a guess? Humans have produced 9 billion tons of plastic, majority of which are still present on the planet … Continue reading “The Overinflated Sense of Useful Inventiveness of Capitalism”
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Hey. You know what all your friends need? To know that no matter what they do, they can’t help polluting the planet. Let’s learn how to bum everyone out about SHOES. Here’s a stat for you: 24 billion pairs of shoes are made annually. There’s literally 8 billion of us. Math says that’s nearly 3 … Continue reading “Shoes – All You Need to Know to Bum Everyone Out”
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You may or may not know that nutritious soil is trending down and catastrophe is trending up. However with this article you can get facts and figures that you can spit out in arguments about why you want to listen to The Cure and contemplate mortality instead of making the house nice in time for … Continue reading “Soil Depletion – Facts to Make You Sound Like an Expert”
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Capitalism often goes hand-in-hand with empiricism, the scientific method, reason and secularism as modern modes of thinking and acting in the world. The desire to paint Capitalism as an objective system tied to the other modes of being and acting described is a slight of hand used to obfuscate the suppressed or explicit emotionality that … Continue reading “The Emotions of Capitalism”
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When we think about Climate Change we often think of vehicles and airplanes as the common culprit and while this is somewhat true, pollution and Climate Change are also affected by the very clothes we wear. According to the BBC, the fashion industry accounts for 8-10% of global emissions. Let us take a look at … Continue reading “Clothing and Climate – Facts To Make You Sound Like an Expert”
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THE FOLLOWING WAS WRITTEN DURING A CARBON NEUTRAL STRIKE BY ALEYA JOBSON, THE FOUNDER OF FASTFRWRD. THE FOLLOWING TEXT CAPTURES THE JOURNEY THROUGH PARANOIA, DESPERATION AND HINDSIGHT. WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO TRY DOING A CARBON NEUTRAL STRIKE (NO INTERACTION WITH OIL, GAS, PLASTIC OR ANIMAL PRODUCTS) FOR TWO WEEKS. PERHAPS YOU WILL RAGE EQUALLY. Fastfrwrd … Continue reading “The Carbon Neutral NOW Manifesto”