Question: At what rate are we losing the Amazon rain forest, in terms of acres per hour?
Category: Sustainability
Energy Writer of the Year
The piece below is an announcement to the effect that The American Energy Society has selected Nathaniel Rich as the Energy Writer of the Year for his article, “Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change” (New York Times …
From the Los Angeles Times: Trump’s Rogues
The L.A. Times took a shot at answering this tricky question: Given that Trump’s Rogues are all well-educated family men, what made them do moronic, dangerous and treacherous things?
Why We Should Give a Damn
As I have written in the past, I think very highly of journalist, activist and public intellectual Christopher Hedges (photo below), and his inspiring line: “I don’t fight fascists because I think I will win. I fight fascists because they are …
From Guest Blogger Emily Folk: Ten Keys to Eco-Friendly Living
It’s common for households to want to change their lifestyles to help the planet. However, getting started can seem like a daunting task without guidance. These 10 keys to an eco-friendly way of life offer straightforward steps to try.
Lots of Horsepower Behind Environmental Sustainability
The content of the meme to the right is exactly correct. In fact, there are more than 200,000 groups internationally, some huge, some tiny, whose employees and volunteers are working tirelessly to keep this civilization from going off the rails, …
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Quantifying the Damage Trump Is Doing to the Environment
Frequent commenter Glenn Doty writes: ….. Even under the best possible outlook we couldn’t have fully decarbonized for a half a century. Trump may have delayed us as much as six years, but likely no more than that.
Taking Care of Humankind
What Fuller said here is correct; selfishness is no longer necessary per se, though I suppose it depends on how one defines the word “necessary.” It’s certainly hard to imagine capitalism existing in its absence.
Improving Life on Earth
Dan Reese (then called “Danny”) was two years ahead of me at both our small, independent Quaker school in Philadelphia, and then at our small liberal arts college in Hartford, CT. I had lost track of him for several decades …
Biomimicry
As the name suggests, biomimicry is the study of design based on what we can observe from the evolution of life forms, and the billions of years of practice that nature has had in solving many of the problems we …
