Earth Day as it’s celebrated here in Santa Barbara, CA is an exhilarating and ever-growing affair. This weekend, several thousand folks of all ages packed into a charming local park, where perhaps 75 vendors made us aware of everything from …
Category: Sustainability
From Guest Blogger Brooke Chaplan: Poison-Free Pest Control Remedies for Your Home
No one wants to expose their family to toxins when trying to clean and protect your home. As a result, concerned parents and home owners take great interest in a poison-free approach to pest control. While many substances exist that …
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Trends in Brutality: Where Is Our Civilization Going?
This morning I happened to see an interview with the spokesperson for Amnesty International whose focus is abolishing the death penalty. No real surprises here, though perhaps a representation of today’s troubled times:
Yesterday’s 2GreenEnergy Instagram Post
Caption: We all share a collective responsibility to be effective stewards of our environment. I try to keep them easy to read and positive in tone. The top line is a reference to a Cat Stevens song of the early …
Energy, Poverty and Terrorism
We often talk about the imperative to bring electrification to the rural parts of the developing world. Energy is a gateway to education, and education is a gateway to prosperity, environmental conservation, as well as stronger and smaller families. This …
Environmental Stewardship: If McDonald’s Can Do It, Anyone Can
KFC is one of the few large fast food chains that still injects healthy chickens with antibiotics on a routine basis. This promotes the development of antibiotic-resistant superbugs which kill 23,000 Americans annually while making over a million people ill. …
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Another 2GE Instagram Post
Caption: “But feeling lonely at times is a small price to pay for the privilege of helping the 7.3 billion people on Earth, not to mention future generations, to have an inhabitable planet on which to live.” I have to …
Perhaps Off-Topic, But Tres Cool; I Promise
Most people live their lives as if they were pre-designed: go to school, make friends, get a job, get married, raise kids, aspire for affluence, retire in comfort, and try to leave your kids a few bucks when you leave …
From Guest Blogger Anica Oaks: Green Culture–How Changing Our Mindsets Can Lead to Green Innovations
Green culture describes sustainability and environmental awareness as a way of life. The idea behind green culture is that sustainable living encompasses far more than putting papers in the recycling bin. It is also very open-ended, which means there is …
Defeating Terrorism
An old friend from grade school reacted adversely to the pic here which I had shared on Facebook, and my comment: “A terrific idea from a wonderful human being.” He wrote: Like the message Craig Shields, but it didn’t work with …
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