Day Two Of Mark Abell's No Impact Project

• Had an apple (from Washington) for breakfast, purchased from Whole Foods.
• had a chocolate brownie and a bagel from Food For Thought[1] for breakfast
• took a midterm: Philosophy: Environmental Ethics
  
• ate a lot of vanilla yogurt mixed with granola
• biked over twenty miles with a new-found friend to Reed College
  

Negatives:

• was given two napkins: one for the chocolate brownie, one for the bagel
• returned a broken blender to Macy's: got a gift-card instead of a monetary refund, thus I will be able to buy sweat-shop produced clothes with the refund for my low quality blender.

Philosophical insights: Corporate capitalism is unsustainable. Also, how did we come to this stage of corporate capitalism? My grandmother's washer machine was a Maytag, and that lasted 35-40 years. Why can't I buy a washer machine today that lasts for thirty years or more? Didn't our grandparents live in a capitalist era? In order for change to occur, will a deeper recession or depression change our habits in America?

[1]http://web.pdx.edu/~salp/salp_saga/group_profile.php?id=47