When I travel, I spend a fair amount of time in rental cars, which provides me with more opportunity to listen to radio programming on our civilization’s challenges and opportunities than I have when I’m home. One of the themes …
Category: Sustainability
A Few Reasons to Mitigate Climate Change
In his comment to my recent piece on global climate change, Cameron Atwood provides a wonderful analysis, which concludes: This strikes me as very much like buying insurance – if nothing happens, you lose some money in exchange for peace …
Energy Policy and Our Obligations to Others
Californians vote tomorrow on a number of measures and candidates for various state and local offices. I’ve tried to pay some level of attention to all the issues (not only those pertaining to energy) and stand ready to make each of the …
Paul Hawken Discusses the Largest Movement in the World Today
As environmentalist Paul Hawken points out in this video of his presentation to the Bioneers, there are at least 200,000 organizations in our world today whose mission is some combination of environmentalism, sustainability, and social justice. I know I face …
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A Couple of Observations for a Sunday Evening
A couple of years ago I bought a rowing machine on which I like to log 4 kilometers in the evening, which takes about half an hour, mostly while watching the game show “Jeopardy” which I really do enjoy. Sunday …
Looking Critically at Our Energy Policy
Today’s the birthday of the beat poet Allen Ginsberg. According to the Writer’s Almanac, when he was 17 and in his freshman year at Columbia University, Ginsberg was introduced to Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, whom Ginsberg later said …
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How Corporations Deal with Global Climate Change — In Both Word and Deed
Here’s an article noting that certain corporations talk out of both sides of their mouths when it comes to climate change. Isn’t that shocking? 🙂 Seriously, I hope I’ll soon be able to muster the resources to begin my “corporate …
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PBS Special: Civilization – The West and the Rest
I heartily recommend the PBS special: “Civilization: The West and the Rest,” which does a fine job in analyzing the six “killer apps” that resulted in the dominance of the Western culture over the remainder of the world. They are: …
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From Guest Blogger Jason Giroux: Environmental Benefits of Recycling Cars
Donating an unwanted car to charity is a fantastic way to benefit the environment. In addition to the environmental benefits of charitable car donation, you are simultaneously helping local charities and receiving a tax write off. The way it works …
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Integrity as the Backbone of Business Dealings
2GreenEnergy Associate Lindsay Oliver makes a big deal about integrity as the backbone of his business dealings. In fact, a mutual friend told me about him, “He’s impeccably honest – at times perhaps too honest.” Given that, it should come …
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