Well, let’s put all this into perspective. Trump partially paid for this by kicking 700K hungry people off food stamps. “Partially” is a key word there, however; it saved a whopping $1.32 billion, or 0.11% of war spending.
Category: Sustainability
Former Director of the U.S. National Park Service Sets Sights on New Goals in Environmental Justice
As I wrote yesterday, I recently had the good fortune to meet Jonathan Jarvis (pictured at left), 18th Director of the U.S. National Park Service under Barack Obama. I thought readers would be interested to know that he now teaches …
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Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Rollback of Environmental Regulations
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 …
Tagged with: animal protection, Clean Energy Answers, emissions, extraction, Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Rollback of Environmental Regulations, resulting damage to the environment and human health, take a cool guess, total laws protecting our environment have been or are soon to be eliminated by the Trump administration at this point
Humanity at its Core
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 …
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The American Education Debacle in the Age of Trump
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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Viewing the Senate Impeachment Trial Through a Different Lens
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 …
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Bruce Springsteen: ‘Trump Doesn’t Understand What it Means To Be American’
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 …
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Gun Rally at the Virginia Capitol: Where’s the Line?
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 …
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Iceland Says No To American Televangelists
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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Kindness
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 …
