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Mindfully Green
Mindfully Green, a personal and Spiritual Guide to Whole Earth Thinking, is a book by Stephanie Kaza. Mindfully Green works with various real life green living methods and common practices and approaches to living sustainably. The ethics of conservation and restraint are urged upon the would-be sustainable green person.
Mindfully Green is the type of book you’d find at a spa for reading between quartz crystal massages and green mud baths. Reducing harm to the environment, sustaining best personal living practices, and understanding deep ecology versus shallow “media” level ecology is the goal. Deep ecology matters, and resonates within the environment.
Like any good green book, Mindfully Green taps into a few economic equations to make its point. The costly environmental impacts of war, in the currency of a bomber fuel tank cost, depleted uranium rich Iraq soils, or simply lost social energy have a cost in the Mindfully Green world.
Engaging the Links, Practicing Well Being, Living Mutually, these can be a little granola sounding. But there has always been a little bit of the zen to living green. Cultivating a positive state of mind is a move for positive change. Ever watch someone stressed out try to think and live green? It doesn’t work.
Mindfully Green connects the brain’s awareness of sustainable living benefits and physical practices. This book really captures the spiritual crossover through practical terms. The emotional moentum of a green garden and the motivatoal force of locally and producing dinner table fodder sustains the energy converging green living cycle.
Eating Japanese “oriyoki” style, the practice of eating just enough, and watching a progressive meal of “plenty” evolve, is truly a East/West polarizing concept. But understanding the label of a mass manufactured grocery store food and analyzing its journey to the store shelf is immediately accessible.
Acting on Green Values also operates to bring the concrete practices of sustainable living closer to home. Developing energy awareness is the balance between expending unproductive energy and creating a temporized balance unspent because its fruits would not net a gain. Mindfully Green operates to encourage the reader to blend Zen motives with piecemeal practice.
The path of practice is an evolutionary journey toward the most common green living habits integrated with current living requirements. Paying full attention and reviewing consumer habits is a part of the sustainabilty task. But also engaging in active contentment instead of consumer based uneasiness and quick answers is another key tenet of Kaza’s book.
(Kindle version available).
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