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Changing Habits

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Climate Change, Environment, Ideas, Society, Vegetarianism | No Comments »

I received an email from Sierra Club today with a link to a website called 50 Ways to Help the Planet. The crazy thing is, on the site, "they" give you 50 actual ways to help the planet. Unbelievable! This isn't the ...

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 ...

St. Louis Earth Day 2008 - Renew Missouri SURGE

Saturday, April 19th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Climate Change, Energy, Environment, green | missouri | No Comments »

St. Louis Earth Day celebrations will be held tomorrow in Forest Park. While sustainability, recycling and the like will be on the agenda, the most important happening will be the continued petitioning for signatures for a Renewable Energy Standard (RES) ...

Coal, Coal, Go Away

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Energy, Technology, Transportation | No Comments »

People all over the country are fighting the good fight against coal. According to the Associated Press: In federal and state courtrooms across the country, environmental groups are putting coal-fueled power plants on trial in a bid to slow the industry's ...

Friday Wrap-Up: Into the Wind

Friday, October 19th, 2007 Posted in Activism, Design, Housing, Responsibility, Water | No Comments »

Holy Tornado Batman! It's been breezy as "all get out" in the Lou the last two days. I don't really know what that means but I think it makes me sound hip . . . I just blew it, didn't ...