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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 ...

Recent Readings: Food Money School Oil Bear

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 Posted in Agriculture, Capitalism, Education, Energy, Environment, Recent Readings | No Comments »

This may be my only post this week. I'll be at an offsite for work for the next couple of days . . . eh, maybe I'll be able to get one in on Friday. You'll just have to wait ...

School Lunches

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007 Posted in Children, Education, Responsibility, Society, Vegetarianism | No Comments »

A short article by Carolyn Tuft published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch yesterday highlights the inadequacy of school lunches offered in many major cities in the U.S. I've reproduced the entire article here, without permission, since it would take longer ...

International Symposium on Energy and Environment

Thursday, April 26th, 2007 Posted in Education, Energy, Environment | 1 Comment »

Back in October of last year (think St. Louis Cardinals World Series Championship) I wrote a piece called, Environmentally Friendly Universities, that focused the energy-related efforts of Washington University in St. Louis, one of my alma maters. Well, now the ...

Responsible MBAs

Friday, December 29th, 2006 Posted in Capitalism, Education, Globalization, Ideas, Miscellaneous, Responsibility, Society | No Comments »

For most of America's history political parties have been divided by business. As a candidate or as a voter you were either pro-business or you weren't - and for the most part people still are. We have a tendency to draw ...