Have you ever had the thought that our society is deliberately distracted, confused, and sidetracked from the real issues that matter, focused instead on hot-button concepts, perhaps gay marriage? It’s fairly clear that the survival of mankind and all life …
Category: Sustainability
Fiddling While Rome Burns
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Predicting the Environment’s Future Based on Its Past
Though I agree with very few of conservative columnist George Will’s conclusions, I find him to be one of the most impressive intellectuals in our world today. And occasionally, he will let out with something that really resonates with me, …
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Eco-Friendly People Are Compassionate With Others – But Is That News?
I was sitting at the train station, writing blog posts, and I happened to overhear one side of a cell phone conversation of the guy sitting next to me, who, before the phone rang, was working on his laptop as …
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Tagged with: clean energy, compassion, ecology, environment, environmentalism, green gardening, sustainability
George Will: Personal Liberties Regardless of the Environmental Costs
I had the pleasure of listening to the conservative columnist George Will deliver a talk yesterday here at my 35th reunion at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. As I told a friend before we entered the auditorium, I disagree with …
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A National Commitment to Sustainability
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 …
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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