Readers who happen to be local to Santa Barbara, CA will want to check out a talk that my colleague Eric Adler is giving on April 3rd on the fascinating topic of holistic land management (see poster below).
Category: Sustainability
Death Penalty on Its Way Out
On Wednesday, March 13, California Governor Gavin Newsom made history by announcing that he would not allow the state to execute anyone on his watch. “Our death penalty system has been – by any measure – a failure. And as governor, …
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Building a More “Just, Verdant, and Peaceful World”–and the Ridicule that Often Accompanies It
Those who endeavor to leave this world a better place than the one they found are frequently ridiculed for their altruistic goals, especially in today’s robo-consumer, me-first world, where people so often find themselves judged on the basis of their …
Notes on Sustainability
I had a nice chat with an entrepreneur in waste-to-energy yesterday; that’s always an experience I enjoy. Near the end of our talk, we broadened the subject matter to include the entire sustainability movement, at which point she lamented how …
Emergencies, Both National and Global
Like beauty, the concept of an emergency is in the eye of the beholder. If you were asked to point to one, you would not be wrong if you pointed to the opioid epidemic, veterans’ suicide rates, environmental devastation, Americans’ …
Tagged with: environmental devastation
Trader Joe’s Listens To Customer Feedback, Making Big Changes in Packaging Their Produce
I wish I had a dollar for every time I (gently) complained about the packaging, as well as a the sourcing, of TJ’s produce. There are good reasons to shop at TJs, but produce isn’t one of them. It never …
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Classmates Sometimes Make Us Proud
When you spend four college years with a class of about 400, you get to know a great many of them, from course work inside and outside your major, dorm life, sports, fraternities, and other social activities. A great many …
Should Illness and Death By Counted in the Cost of Pollution from Power Plants?
Here’s an article that shines another little ray of light on what’s happening in the Trump administration’s EPA. In this case, it’s an attack on the Obama-era Mercury and Air Toxics Standard (MATS), where the EPA, at the time, found that it …
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Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: The Environmental Protection Agency and the Mining Industry
Question: What key change has the Trump administration’s EPA made in regulating the toxic waste coming from mining operations? What is the impact on the health and safety of the people living in Montana, California, Colorado, Oklahoma, and other states?
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Environmental Protection
Question: What do the environmental protections listed on the right have in common? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: Of all the things that concern decent people, the aggressive destruction of the environment should be at or …
