Normally I agree with a lot of what Andrea Zanin and Franklin Veaux (tacit) have to say about alternative lifestyles and how to make them work, but last winter I became aware of a growing trend among the "popular" poly writers to adopt what was coming across to me, at least, as a kind of dismissiveness or denigrative attitude toward those people in the ( Read more... )

Several years ago, before I really knew them, some friends of mine bought themselves a first-generation Prius, even though the technology was still a little buggy, the power output not great, and the automotive industry was still blindly and blithely fighting the reduce-fossil-fuel-consumption movement on many fronts. In their minds, it was the ( Read more... )