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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 ...

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 ...

Financing Black Smoke

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Responsibility, green | missouri | 2 Comments »

I was in a relatively good environmental mood today. The heat finally broke in St. Louis and most of what I'd read or heard today had been positive. But, reading this article, posted on AlterNet, was the equivalent of watching The ...