Actions Speak Louder Than Words

Is it just me, or is anyone else really frustrated with the "Cradle to Cradle" text? I'm truly upset with it. It seems more like a rant than a solution to anything. When I began to read chapter three and it started talking about the book not being made out of paper AGAIN, I was like, "This book is going nowhere." But, maybe it's just me, maybe I'm not getting it.

However, I have found that I enjoy the other text "Art in the Making", immensely. Especially this week's section about the artist, Betsy Damon. Here is someone who is concerned about the environment and it actually doing something about it. The article talks about how she was a conventional artist, one that was concerned with "income, number of solo exhibitions, and mentions in the art press" (p.356), and how she transformed herself into an activist artist.

Her main concern became the world's water supply as "the living bodies we have inherited, and the recognition that our DNA is immutably dependant on water." (p.356)
She created a nonprofit organization in 1990 called Keepers of the Waters, which brought many people together from many different fields to create water-treatment systems. Damon and her organization put on performances in the city of her focus, Chengdu, China, to show the citizens just how dirty their water was. Her efforts led to the construction of a 'living water park' which she designed, to educate people about their precious resource.

I love how this woman made herself a part of the solution instead of just talking about a problem. She went above and beyond by going to the people and making things happen. I hate it when people write books, hold campaigns, make films, etc. that accomplish nothing. I feel that to get anything accomplished, you yourself have to get out there and make it happen. Like the old adage in my title, "Actions speak louder than words."