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Tuesday, April 27, 7 to 9 p.m. Meaningful Movies Bellevue will present the award-winning documentary, “Seeding Change: The Power of Conscious Commerce.” Never have the stakes been higher, whether it is climate change, soil degradation or plastic pollution. “Triple bottom line” companies provide an immediate opportunity for viewers to be …

Money and morality. I laughed out loud when I first heard this was the next Coffee Talk topic!

I aspire to eat healthy, minimally processed foods that I prepare myself, with local ingredients, in my own kitchen. I also have a bottomless appetite for trash, and often indulge in curly fries, frozen pizza, and pretty much anything in burrito form.

Rampant consumerism can be seen as the exploitation of the consumer. It has imposed financial slavery to most, and much of the time is a liar at best.

Remember that part of the Bible where it says that you cannot serve both God and money? We like to forget that around Thanksgiving

I’m one of the “lucky” ones. I have my health, a happy marriage. I’m educated, employed with a nice roof over my head and far more than enough to eat at any time during the day or night.