For the second consecutive year Coca Cola won the award for the most polluting brand in a global audit of plastic trash conducted by the Break Free From Plastic global movement. As noted here: The giant soda company was responsible for more …
Category: Sustainability
Making America Great Again
There are people who believe that America is on the right path, i.e., becoming great again–but here’s a meme that raises the question: Who are they? What do they believe in? Their values aren’t Christian, and they aren’t humanitarian.
America the Hateful
I wish I had been on this train to tell this this guy how much I approve of his hat. Racism isn’t uniquely American; moreover, there has never been a time in history that the U.S. wasn’t rife with it.
There Is No Middle of the Road
We speak so much about divisiveness in U.S. politics that we often overlook how, I believe literally, everything else in our lives is going to extremes at the very same time. To take one of hundreds of glaring examples, look …
Tagged with: divisive politics
What’s in a Name?
William Shakespeare, speaking through Juliet: “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Yes, that’s true, but sometimes names mean something important. At left is an assertion that those who care about the Earth …
Presidents Aren’t Necessarily Terrible People
There is still living proof that old, white ex-presidents can be extremely fine human beings; sadly, that’s not going to remain the case forever. Larger version below.
A Government Of The People, By The People, And For The People Has Perished From The Earth. Will It Be Reborn?
On this day in 1731, a group of young men in Philadelphia pooled their money to set up the first library in America. Not a bad time to pose the question: What is the proper role of government? What things belong in …
Tagged with: Charles and David Koch, Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, dismantling the federal government, Donald Trump mentally unstable and soon-to-be impeached, government of by and for the people, investigative journalist Jane Mayer., looting the U.S. Treasury on the billionaires' behalf, unlimited bribery has become the organizing principle by which our law-making apparatus operates
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) Speaks on Gun Violence Prevention
I’m happy to report that my alma mater Trinity College welcomed U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Igor Volsky, the founder and executive director of Guns Down America, to a Gun Violence Prevention Forum last month.
California’s New Animal Rights Laws Raise Interesting Questions
According to what we read here: California has revised its animal rights laws and is set to become the first state in the U.S. which will ban the manufacture, sale, and purchase of the fur products of certain wild animals. …
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Tagged with: humanitarian values
Public Education in America Under Attack
I may have mentioned that I tutor at the local high school in Santa Barbara County, home of 2GreenEnergy “headquarters,” which gives me ample opportunity to speak with teachers. Unlike the city of Santa Barbara, our little town (Santa Ynez) …
