There are plenty of places on Earth where fans could (and would) be “held accountable” for booing the president, but America most certainly isn’t one of them. Here, with very few exceptions, we’re free to express whatever thoughts we choose, …
Category: Sustainability
Florida Says No To “Fake News”
From the Washington Post: The librarians of Citrus County, Fla., had what seemed like a modest wish: A digital subscription to the New York Times. For about $2,700 annually, they reasoned, they could offer their roughly 70,000 patrons an easy …
Beef and the Environment
A reader sends this article from the USA Today: Let them eat steak: Hold the shame, red meat is not bad for you or climate change. Let me begin by saying that I tend to be more impressed with peer-reviewed …
Tagged with: animal methane, beef industry has a horrific impact on the environment, effluent waste, Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), fossil fuel usage, largely to grow beef, losing 150 acres of the Amazon rainforest per minute, stress that the mass consumption of beef places on the environment, unlimited supply of red meat, water and land consumption
Mourning the Loss of Truth
As you read the exchange to the left, ask yourself: how did it become this way? How have facts ceased to matter? Sure, there have been hundreds of discussions to the effect that truth is the biggest and most tragic …
Really? Trump Wants To Defund Libraries, Public Television? Couldn’t Be.
This is news? As if Trump has something to gain by fostering a population of literate people capable of free thinking?
Onward Christian Values
It’s the 502nd anniversary of the act of defiance for which Martin Luther is known today: nailing a copy of his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle church, marking the beginnings of the Protestant Reformation and its …
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: This Company Wants to Eliminate 100 Billion Plastic Bottles
There is a reason that “reduce” comes first here, i.e., if you don’t use something in the first place, you don’t have to worry about what happens to it downstream. It is for that reason that this plan to reduce …
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Tagged with: reduce reuse recycle
Gauging Humanity
Most of us probably have a lower assessment of humankind now than we did a few years ago. Until recently, it was possible to believe that our society was on a path to becoming more civilized. Outside of events that …
From Guest Blogger Jenna Tsui: Amazon Fails to Appeal to Environmentalists
Amazon and sustainability. These two words have always felt odd beside each other — and they still do. There is only one reason why Amazon.com encourages people to ship bottled water and single servings of Cup-O-Noodle halfway across the country: …
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What’s Next?
Not since just before the turning point in the Second World War has there been so much public angst about America’s future. The father of the kid I’m tutoring is a stockbroker, and I asked him yesterday, “What’s going to …
