Category: Sustainability

Question:  With the realm of greenhouse gas emissions, animal protection, water and air pollution, and extraction, how many total laws protecting our environment and health have been, or are in process to become eliminated by the Trump administration at this …

Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Rollback of Environmental Regulations Read More »

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From Wikipedia: Casandra Brené Brown, PhD spent her career studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy and is the author of five #1 New York Times best sellers: The Gifts of Imperfection, Daring Greatly, Rising Strong, Braving the Wilderness, and her latest book, Dare to Lead, which is the …

Humanity at its Core Read More »

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A friend who teaches 6th grade in a public school in Hawaii notes: The majority of his students have no real aspirations for learning or academic achievement. Their parents don’t care any more than the kids themselves.  

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Americans generally hate being tapped for jury duty, and often come up with excuses to be dismissed.  The meme here offers a few suggestions that are sure to get the job done, if they wouldn’t be regarded as patently absurd …

Viewing the Senate Impeachment Trial Through a Different Lens Read More »

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Readers may find this piece in The Independent to be of interest. I would submit that it’s more complicated than that; it depends on what it actually does mean to be an American. In a way, America is at war …

Bruce Springsteen: ‘Trump Doesn’t Understand What it Means To Be American’ Read More »

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Nice outfits, guys!  You with the gray scarf: Love the knee pads. Seriously, a few thousand white nationalists and other cretins held a protest in Richmond, Virginia today, expressing their viewpoint that any gun laws, regardless of how minor, are …

Gun Rally at the Virginia Capitol: Where’s the Line? Read More »

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Iceland is an admirable land, and there is certainly a reason to smile at this announcement, but I would let the free market decide on matters where no real injury is born, except to those willing to choose it.

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The Dalai Lama says, “My religion is kindness.” It’s easy to forget that people who are treated kindly tend to treat others in a similar fashion, and that the way we treat others has an effect that ripples through hundreds …

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When Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency was determined to roll back regulations that would keep America’s waterways free of toxic industrial pollution, they faced a dilemma.  Could they get away with simply lifting a ban on known poisons?  Sure, Trump supporters …

There’s More Than One Way To Pollute America’s Water Read More »

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For the last few years, American public school children had been the beneficiaries of Michelle Obama’s effort to include more fruits and vegetables in the lunch menus, replacing things like pizza, hamburgers and french fries.  Predictably, that came to a …

For America’s School Children, Fat, Sugar, and Salt Replace Fruits and Vegetables Read More »

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