It’s a shame that we need government to force us to do what’s right; ideally, businesses wouldn’t sell things that wreck the planet, and consumers wouldn’t buy them (and then litter them across the countryside). Having said that, we should all …
Category: Sustainability
Examining Life’s Meaning
Pictured and quoted here, Rabindranath Tagore “was a Bengali polymath, poet, musician, and artist from the Indian subcontinent. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.” I’m going to take a moment and let what he wrote here …
Earth Day
Love this rock art! Which reminded me that the Earth Day celebration here in Santa Barbara is a great place for young and old alike. I always brought my kids when they were little.
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Bringing Back Child Labor? But He Looks Like Such a Kind Man.
When we look at current events, it may appear that there is literally no one even remotely connected with the Trump administration who isn’t completely insane. Though on closer inspection, there is clearly a method to the madness.
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Wishing You Success In All Your Endeavors
The meme here makes a great point in a wonderfully artistic and exuberant way. Yet, fortunately for the world, there are some people who “come alive” merely as the result of being given the opportunity to do some good in …
Of Dubious Relevance to Environmental Sustainability
Occasionally I’ll come across a photo so wonderful that I feel compelled to put it in a blog post, even though the relevance to environmental sustainability may be something of a stretch. This is one such instance. Obviously, I could …
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Free Speech on College Campuses
The main reason that I haven’t written a book in the last few years is that I’ve come to understand that the issues thwarting environmental sustainability have relatively little to do with the technological and economic aspects of things like …
Putting Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again
We’ve all heard the stories in which the ancient Romans sewed salt into the fields of the cities they plundered, making it difficult for future inhabitants to grow crops. While it turns out that these tales are more myth than …
Christianity and Environmentalism
This article poses, and attempts to answer the question: “Why Is It Difficult to Get Christians to Care About the Earth?”
Happy Belated Earth Day
As we oldsters celebrated Earth Day yesterday, our minds went back to 1970, at the height of the U.S. protest movement, and rising dissatisfaction with the environmental abuses of the modern world.
