At left is a fabulous expression of what it means to be a person of kindness and decency. One either gets this or he doesn’t.
Category: Sustainability
Sustainable Compensation
Here’s Abigail Disney, an heir to the family fortune, talking about CEO compensation. “There’s nothing wrong with a $65 million payday, as long as the people who work for you aren’t so strapped for money that they’re rationing their insulin,” …
Government’s Role in Protecting Us
I voted Libertarian in a couple of elections in my early days, reasoning there is nothing government does more efficiently than the private sector.
What Will We Live to Experience?
My 64th birthday tomorrow sets my mind in motion as to what I’m going to experience in the remainder of my life, and what I’ll miss. Several items in particular threaten our sustainability:
Fun with Life-Cycle Analyses
If you haven’t already done so, you may want to acquaint yourself with the concept of an LCA — life-cycle analysis (or “assessment”). It’s simply a summation of the environmental inputs and outputs of the “cradle to grave” sequence of events, …
Another One Bites the Dust at the Environmental Protection Agency
From the Washington Post: Environmental Protection Agency air chief Bill Wehrum, who helped reverse Obama-era rules aimed at cutting pollutants, is stepping down amid scrutiny over possible violations of federal ethics rules.
Anthropologist Jane Goodall Poses an Excellent Question
Oooo! Oooo! Call on me!!! It’s because, along with that superior intellectual capacity, comes some really nasty stuff: greed, tribalism, bigotry, selfishness, credulity, lazy thinking, and an indifference to the suffering of others.
Taking a Lesson from George Orwell–On His Birthday
George Orwell would have turned 116 today. Referring to his involvement in the Spanish Civil War (1936) he composed the essay “Why I Write,” in which he said: “Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has …
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A Bit of Warmth from Santa Barbara, California
The sign here hasn’t tolerated Santa Barbara’s seaside weather too well; the top-most section in Spanish is mostly peeled away, and the bottom, in Arabic, is splashed with mud. I present it nonetheless, to make the point that the people …
War’s Hard Costs
The chart below staggers the mind, if only insofar as it makes us think about the $6 trillion we’ve spent in Iraq and Afghanistan, and what we could have done with that money.
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