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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) ...

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 ...

Renew Missouri

Monday, April 7th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Government | 3 Comments »

Apologies for the recent absence. While work has taken up some of my free time in the past few weeks, I've also been negligent about writing. Primarily due to the lack of motivation but also because I've been thinking about ...