Why has there been a 30% reduction of North America’s bird population since the 1970s? No one knows. Of course, there are obvious suspects: loss of habitat, toxins that affect life span and/or fertility, climate change, and reductions in food …
Category: Sustainability
Bioneers
To my shame, I’ve never attended a Bioneers conference, but as suggested in this pic I just took, that’s about to change. Founded in 1990, Bioneers is a nonprofit organization that promotes practical and innovative solutions to global environmental and bio-cultural challenges, and is …
View on Impeachment
A reader offers this interesting but fairly cynical viewpoint on the impeachment proceedings currently taking place in the U.S. I certainly think it’s good that proceedings have begun. I’m not highly hopeful of success, but I would be so very …
Tagged with: impeachment
Impossible Burger Renders Red Meat Health Issues Moot
Here more on the controversy surrounding the ill-effects of the consumption of red meat. Not the biggest deal in the world either way, IMO. Now that the Impossible Burger is so widely available, there is no reason to eat beef …
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Nationalism
If you’ll excuse this guy’s French, he’s making an excellent point, one that had an attraction for me even as a small child. We boys of the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia were part of the so-called “Interacademic League,” …
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
Two quick points on supplemental nutrition: a) SNAP comes out of the orange slice at the bottom of the chart here. It’s no more responsible for the ballooning national debt than snow removal in Florida.
Watershed Events in History Are Not Opportunities for Silence
I thought I’d comment on another excellent conversation I had with my mother last night. As a conservative, she is understandably perturbed by my anti-Trump position, and she asked if it wouldn’t be prudent for me to remain quiet and …
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Tagged with: environmentalist author/consultant
Parody Inversion
I can only speak for myself, but this happens to me all the time. I’ll read something that appears perfectly plausible given our current times, only to note that it came from The Onion.
HBD, Mahatma Gandhi
Today is the 150th birthday of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. As we celebrate, we recall some of the most beautiful thoughts for which he is remembered, including, “Truth never damages a cause that is just.”
Speculation on Trump’s Mental State
Since long before Trump became president, scads of people, both professional and amateur psychologists, have offered conjecture as to what forms the basis of the U.S. president’s personality.
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