Eight months into this presidency, we’re under threat of nuclear war and we have lethally violent Nazis marching in our streets, two phenomena so shocking that they’ve relegated the dozens of other unfolding catastrophes (like the demise of environmental regulations …
Category: Sustainability
Everyone Wants To Know: How Did the American Experiment in Democracy Go So Wrong–So Suddenly?
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From Guest Blogger Lana Hawkings: How to Go Green at Home and Lead a Sustainable, Non-Toxic Lifestyle
Going green is probably the most pressing initiative right now. In order to move to a sustainable lifestyle, many households are encouraged to make necessary changes to secure a better, cleaner future for their children. However, the road to this …
From Guest Blogger Devin Morrissey: An Argument for Sustainable Healthcare Practices
Common discourse about reducing society’s impact on the environment usually centers what we can do in our own lives to change the world for the better. While choosing eco-friendly transportation and getting your community involved in recycling can yield some …
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From Guest Blogger Lizzie Weakly: Seven Clean-up Tips to Keep Your Area Environmentally Friendly
There are several ways that you can help your community become more environmentally friendly. Others will want to join in when they see one person starting. If each of the 89,000 communities in the United States. If each one does …
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Nothing Not To Like About Aeroponics:
It’s been quite a while since we’ve had any discussion of aeroponics, the cutting-edge agricultural system for growing plants (and raising fish) in an extremely compact manner, with a fraction of the environmental impact of conventional farming. It’s funny, it …
Some Job Openings in Sustainability Are More Interesting than Others
As part of our ongoing effort to function as a conduit of information on job openings in the sustainability sector, I present this little beauty: NASA needs someone on staff to protect the planet from aliens. If aliens are coming, …
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Is Human Civilization Reversing Course?
Errr…no. This has been a weird little perturbation in the political scene, much like the witch trials in 1692; the phenomenon came and went, and a year later, most people of that place and time couldn’t even explain how it …
Tagged with: civil rights, environmentalism, gay marriage, Magna Carta, the abolition of slavery, the Age of Reason, the end of legal segregation, The Enlightenment, the feminist movement/gender equality, the French Revolution, the Renaissance, the U.S. Constitution, women's suffrage, workers' rights
From Guest Blogger Hannah Thomas: Eco-Friendly Cleaning Tips For Your Home
In most of the households, cleaning products are put away in some cabinets and out of children’s reach. In the back of our minds, we all know that those products are highly dangerous, yet we use them daily and spread …
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Outside the U.S. the Developed World Is Working Hard on Environmental Responsibility
Gary Tulie, 2GreenEnergy super-supporter from Buckinghamshire, England (pictured), sent me this piece called Air Quality Plan: Diesel and petrol cars banned by 2040, £255m to tackle pollution blackspots. He writes: Hi Craig. The UK is to end sale of new diesel …
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Huxley’s Birthday Is a Good Time to Contemplate Where We Are as a Civilization
From the Writer’s Almanac: In 1931, (Aldous Huxley) began work on a novel that he intended to be a light look at what the future might hold – a satiric response to the utopian novels of H.G. Wells. He wrote …
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