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 ...
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 ...
Two Broken Ankles
Sunday, May 4th, 2008 Posted in Animal Cruelty, Society | No Comments »William C. Rhoden begins his piece in this Sunday's The New York Times by asking, "Why do we keep giving thoroughbred horse racing a pass? Is it the tradition? The millions upon millions invested in the betting?" I'm going to ...
What’s the Point?
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 Posted in Energy, Environment, Responsibility, Society, Technology | 6 Comments »Thomas Friedman's, "Doha and Dalian," piece from last Wednesday's New York Times is depressing, for sure, but also capitulating. His message to Americans: there's no point of buying hybrids or using compact fluorescent light bulbs since energy-consuming development in Asia is ...
Greening the Homeless
Thursday, September 20th, 2007 Posted in Housing, Ideas, Society | 3 Comments »In, "Rev. Larry Rice goes green in Dutchtown," the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Tim Townsend tells us of the Reverend's plans to open "a center that would assist the homeless by giving them skills in the burgeoning field of renewable energy." One ...
