I happened to meet a wonderful couple earlier this afternoon at a restaurant that featured the UCLA/USC game on a television screen. When, during a pause in our conversation, the wife caught me glancing upward and asked me whom I …
Category: Sustainability
When We Talk about the “Environmentalist Movement” Exactly What Do We Mean?
I’m working my way through a collection of esteemed essays on a variety of topics, and I happened upon a brilliant piece on environmentalism: Jedediah Purdy’s “Shades of Green.” A professor of law at Duke University, Purdy ably makes the point that there …
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From Guest Blogger Angela: Ways to be Eco-Friendly at Home You Never Thought of Before
Saving the environment isn’t just about petitioning your local leaders to implement legislature and expecting others to do the job. Like with anything else, changing the world starts at home. If you want to clean the environment and make the …
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Sustainability and the Proliferation of “Stuff”
About once a month or so, I like to write a short piece on the proliferation of “stuff” in our affluent Western lifestyles, and effects that this explosion of goodies is having on us. Mainly, I mention that our hyper-consumerism …
From Guest Blogger Jessica: Notes on Ecotourism
Madhya Pradesh, a state in central India, is balanced with a broad assortment of the tourist destinations and gifted with magnificent ecotourism, pilgrimage, wildlife tourism and leisure tourism. The wildlife tours of Madhya Pradesh are highly popular among all the age …
Investment in Renewable Energy Aimed at Strengthening Energy Security of Tribal Nations
Writing for the terrific new website “Empower the Ocean,” UK journalist Emma Websdale just posted a story about the Native American Tribal Nations, in which she notes: “In an attempt to strengthen (these nations) against the threats of climate change, …
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St. Augustine and Sustainability
Yesterday was the birthday of St. Augustine (354 CE). I remember laughing out loud when I came across this in his “Confessions” (ca. 400 CE) in a “History of Philosophy” class in college: ‘What did God do before he made heaven …
From Guest Blogger Paula: Good Reasons To Go Green In Home Cleaning
The benefits of the so-called “green” cleaning has long been discussed in certain society and professional circles mostly by people, who work for different cleaning companies and people who provide households and specialized businesses with a variety of detergents, but …
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Check Out Earth Preservers, Certainly “Among the Best” the Environmental News Site
It’s been a while – too long, actually – since I mentioned my friend Bill Paul and the amazing work he’s doing at Earth Preservers, the environmental news and education site that Education World said is “among the best” of …
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From Guest Blogger Emily Austin: How to Ensure Sustainability to Nature While Traveling
The world is a wonderful place and one should traverse its surface in order to enrich life or rejuvenate the mind, body and soul. However, the endeavor of an exploration should not be undertaken at the cost of the beauty, …
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