by viva7
My friend, Nik, is driving nonstop across the country using only biodiesel next week. He is doing this for various reasons. Some of them are obviously noble, like spreading the good word about alternative energy sources. Others are fun, like the brazenness of taking on such a project/adventure. And others are economic, like marketing a specific brand of biodiesel fuel.
I have been thinking a lot lately about the intermingling of social responsibility and capitalism. It is not a topic I have ever internalized before – I entered the field of nursing because I felt called to direct service. And while my ideas span the macro, my work stayed pretty micro. But I recently had a discussion