Building Offshore Platforms, But Not For Drilling
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 Posted in Energy, Government, Responsibility | 1 Comment »I have a dream that one day a politician will get on TV and tell people gas prices are supposed to be high, and that there's a cost to living 50 miles from an urban center. She'll say that cost ...
1Sky, Or Too Many?
Thursday, July 31st, 2008 Posted in Activism, Organizations, Responsibility | No Comments »A friend from Show My Progress sent me a link today to 1Sky, a group that "was created in 2007 to focus the power of millions of concerned Americans on a single goal: bold federal action by 2010 that can reverse ...
Life At 100 Miles Per Gallon
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 Posted in Responsibility, Society, Transportation | No Comments »Balancing convenience with conscience is a tall order. In this regard, some of people are luckier than others. One extreme instinctually favors conscience over convenience; the people is this extreme represent a social zenith and consistently make decisions based on ...
One Voice: Convincing the Convincers
Monday, April 28th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Climate Change, Corporations, Education, Environment, Responsibility | No Comments »Al Meyerhoff, an environmental lawyer for 30 years and former director of the Natural Resource Defense Council Public Health Project, has written a great, and slightly irreverent, piece for the Sacramento Bee entitled, "It's getting hot". The gist - environmentalists need ...
Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 Posted in Agriculture, Environment, Feature, Globalization, Health, Responsibility, Vegetarianism | 2 Comments »Mark Bittman does a yeoman's job of summarizing the meat industry's impact on the globe in this article. The facts are astonishing, mind-blowing, and will create real shock and awe in your mind if you synthesize them. And in light ...
