I’m sure many readers here share my interest on the broader topic of sustainability, whether it’s transportation, building design, or agriculture. And we can certainly count on the Sierra Club to keep us posted on many of these larger topics. …
Category: Sustainability
From Guest Blogger Heather: Eco-Friendly Self-Storage Tips
There are many of us who fail to realize the results of our actions upon the environment, but we can do a lot to improve upon our habits to do better. The following tips will give you an idea what …
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From Guest Blogger July Minor: Keep the Earth Clean — Green Living Basics
Green living has many benefits both for human beings and for nature. Many people today are turning to green living. There are people that want to stick to eco-friendly way of life but don’t know what exactly they should do. …
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How Can We Get Bold New Concepts in Sustainability To Take Off?
Earlier today, a friend from the U.K sent me a business plan on a bold new idea in sustainability. It’s a clever attempt to use the strengths of media in our pop culture to forward a unified voice from “We …
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Sustainability and the Arc of the Moral Universe
During a 30-minute drive I took earlier today, I had the pleasure of listening to a 1964 talk that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered at the Baccalaureate sermon at the commencement exercises for Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, which …
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Sustainability: Topic of a Mobile Discussion
I’m headed out in a few minutes for another hike at the same place (Gaviota, CA) I mentioned a year or so back, and with the same friend – a fellow who shares my concern for the direction in which …
From Guest Blogger Chris Long: Sustainable Forestry — A Look Behind the Label
In the world of sustainable lumber certification, a lot of hard knocks have been traded between various organizations, mainly over the issue of acceptance by the United States Green Building Council’s (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program, …
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From Guest Blogger Paula Sheamus: Green Clean — What are the Benefits?
Today everybody is talking about green cleaning. This is a process that involves using eco-friendly ingredients for the preparation of cleaning products. If you want to keep fresh water clean and toxic-free, you need to consider green cleaning. The benefits …
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Our Lack of Interest in Sustainability
Today’s “word of the day” on dictionary.com is “misology” — a new one on me; it means “distrust or hatred of reason or reasoning,” as in: In this way misology, the hatred of reason, arises. Socrates now confronts misology “because …
Albert Schweitzer, Reverence for Life, and Sustainability
I write often about humankind’s tendency towards specialization, i.e., how most of the R&D work aimed at innovation in today’s world is performed by people with extremely narrow (though intensely refined) skill-sets. I suppose it can be argued that this …
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