It’s the birthday of Leóš Janácek, Central European composer of the late 19th/early 20th Century.
Category: Sustainability
Kafka’s Birthday Has New Meaning in Today’s World
I was amused when I was a young man and came to realize that I share my birthday (July 3rd) with Franz Kafka. It was a time when almost everything in our world (except for Kafka’s stories) made sense. Honest …
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How Did We Arrive in the Land of Trump?
Someone asked me to assess how the U.S. arrived here, in a day in which Donald Trump would be dominating our discussions, and, in some ways, our entire lives. I replied: I have to think this is a transitory condition. …
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Changing Regard for the U.S. Presidency
Pictured here is a popular meme one sees on Facebook. And it happens to play out in my life, where a friend comments:
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The U.S. Has Role Models for Sustainability and Civility All Over the Globe
My dear friend (and very first marketing consulting client, back in 1985) Terry Ribb writes that she takes heart in the progress that Sweden has made in committing to renewables. I thought I would publish the conversation that she and …
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The Healing of the Chesapeake Offers Insight Into an Important Social Phenomenon
Whether or not they’re keeping track of the results, most Americans have heard of the initiative aimed at restoring the health of the Chesapeake Bay–reducing the levels of pollution and building back the ecosystems.
Consumerism and Sustainability
Frequent commenter MarcoPolo responds to my suggestion that unbridled consumerism is unsustainable, and that it’s particularly atrocious that so much of it is focused on items that serve little if any practical value. He writes:
Killing the EPA Bit By Bit: Why, When We Can put a Spear Through the Whole Thing with the Stroke of a Pen?
The EPA is abolishing a rule that protects (or protected) clean drinking water for 117 million people. This is (was) the Clean Water Rule, the result of more than 400 meetings with stakeholders and a review of more than 1 …
Rethinking Consumerism
The “Climate One” conference in San Francisco is a day chock-full of interesting and compelling ideas about humankind’s behavior vis-a-vis the environment, and what can be done to improve this relationship. Did you know, for instance, that, on average, an …
Our Civilization’s Impact on the Environment
Through a magnificent coincidence, I found this fabulous video cartoon summarizing humankind’s impact on planet Earth just a few days after we celebrated Edvard Grieg’s 174th birthday earlier this week. You’ll immediately recognize the ominous crescendo in the theme (“In …
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