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Is it safe?…Is it safe? 2008-08-14 08:16:36 My wife and I have shared a car for the past four years. It’s a streak I’m proud of, one that depends on a number of factors and that requires a fearless attitude toward walking/biking in the rain. But as we’ve both graduated grad school and now settle into careers, it looks like the streak [...]
A “Stern” Report 2008-08-14 02:57:32 The ‘Stern
Report on the Economics of Climate Change’ was released on October 30, 2006 by Lord Nicholas Stern. Lord Stern is an academic and a British economist, who served as the senior vice-president and chief economist of the World Bank between 2000 and 2003. On July 16, 2005 he was asked by Gordon Brown, [...]
NAFTA Completion 2008-08-13 18:43:12 Were you celebrating the completion of NAFTA, North American Free Trade Agreement, on January 1st of this year? I definitely wasn’t. I have heard about NAFTA here and there but have not known the details and therefore didn’t even know about the completion of the 14 year phase-in process. Reading in Yes Magazine, I found [...] Read more:Completion
This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough 2008-08-13 16:21:11 You’ve heard of the campfire rule, right? “Leave it better than you found it.” At the end of this month, Burning Man will be in its twenty-second year of cultural events, individual spiritualism, artistic movements and general festival debauchery. Afterwards, you won’t even know they were there.
Located in the Black Rock Desert for one [...]
Transpartisan- A New Way of Being 2008-08-13 15:44:15 Voices from the left and right, motivated by anger and hostility more than rational thought, have been moving further and further to their respective sides of the political spectrum. This migration creates a toxic divide, where it is impossible to engage in meaningful dialogue in order to form the consensus we need to create [...]
GZO Podcast Episode 2: Jack Schacht Part 2, The Right Side 2008-08-13 11:34:28 Jack Schacht, co-founder of GreenZoneOnline.com continues the exploration of the environmental movement as it moves to the political right and the power of a unified scientific approach to solutions.
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Nights Under the Stars: Mount Rainier National Park 2008-08-13 10:19:58 I wish I could say I climbed to the top of Mount Rainier
- but I didn’t. I did however spend four days and three nights backpacking and experiencing this slice of Pacific Northwest scenery (which included the above photographed experience of watching the sunrise above the clouds!).
When two friends from Seattle, Lauren and Lizzie, [...] Read more:National
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A smart move 2008-08-12 19:30:22 The Auraria Campus home of Metro State, Coloradoin Denver will be closed during the Democratic National Convention. It will cut down on traffic and congestion in the Downtown Denver area.
Officials from the Auraria Higher Education Center have announced that all Auraria Campus buildings will be locked from Aug. 23-29 during the Democratic National Convention. [...]
Endangering the Endangered 2008-08-12 14:38:48 It seems things will be getting worse for the United States’ 1,300 endangered animals and plants. The Bush administration is altering regulations so federal agencies have the right to determine whether their construction projects will damage any of the endangered animals.
At the moment, agencies must meet standards instituted by the Wildlife Service, and the agencies’ [...]
Trim the Fat, Cut Out Excess 2008-08-12 11:43:13 Conservation can actually help you lose weight. Who would have known? Oh right, that’s why environmentalists often refer to consumption as a bad thing.
A while back, Yahoo’s featured article broke the news that people who live in suburbs tend to be fatter than those who inhabit cities. Apparently, several medical studies have shown that the [...] Read more:Excess
Response to a query on climate change 2008-08-11 19:56:36 Dear Dr.Ulf Erlingsson
I read your response to one of the articles published in Down To Earth. You wrote “This is the warmest period in 400 years because finally we are out of the Ice Age. We are now back to a more agreeable climate that has been the norm for the past 8,000 years.”
I would [...] Read more:Response
Cultivating Disgust 2008-08-11 15:56:01 What is it that makes people change their habits? I ask myself this as I contemplate environmentalism, and the drastic changes necessary in order to ensure the future of Planet Earth in the hands of human beings. I love the idea of social conscience and education, but when I think carefully about it, I find [...]
Planning an Environmental A-fair 2008-08-11 12:07:36 Having been away at college, as an environment lover, I was spoiled by my campus, where I could find several groups of people who shared my ideals and concerns. Though I was slightly out of the loop, when I returned to my Midwestern hometown, I found the city to be completely regressive in comparison, years [...]
Us and Dirt 2008-08-10 13:23:48 While the world is much too full to have everyone live in the country—indeed, there are many in this world who don’t like to leave the city—I do believe that, in a conversation about humans’ relationship to their natural environment, we would be remiss if we skipped over the idea that, in order to feel [...]
Stuff: Free and Green 2008-08-10 13:20:13 In the spirit of my last blog which touched lightly upon the issue of too much stuff, I’d like to dedicate this one to cheap and easy ways to acquire what you need for less or nothing. Most of the techniques I’m about to suggest are:
a. cheap for you,
b. require little or no energy or materials to [...] Read more:Green
Ten Ways to Green A Hippy 2008-08-28 16:12:09 Contributing a little non-toxic odor to the atmosphere, that dready on the corner playing guitar is the icon of the green revolution. Living off of less that 1,000 dollars a year, eating nuts and berries, using less than 5 gallons of water a week, who could be more environmentally sound? But everyone holds room for [...] Read more:Green
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SAVING THE ENVIRONMENT ALSO A CATALYST FOR RECONCILIATION 2008-08-23 22:53:54 Throughout human history, we have seen the world’s religious traditions in perpetual conflict. Despite these conflicts, they still all seem to share a deep connection to the earth and a mutual concern about the many pressing environmental issues of our time. “Creation care,” a common term used by people of faith, can possibly be [...]
Drink a Beer, Save the Earth 2008-08-21 14:36:34
Imagine hitting up the local pub, sipping your favorite microbrew, and unwinding after a long day. Now imagine that the people you’re drinking with aren’t coworkers but environmental activists and the overwhelming majority of conversation is centered around biodiesel, backyard gardens, and the only debate is whether wind or solar energy is more efficient. This [...] Read more:Drink
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SWALLOWING PARTISAN PRIDE MAKES FOR GOOD ENVIRONMENAL NEWS 2008-08-21 11:25:49 A bi-partisan group, dubbed the “Gang of Ten”, through compromise and the swallowing of a little partisan pride, has come up with proposed legislation that most Americans can support and is really good news for the environment. And it actually might do everything it’s intended to do: reduce our need for foreign oil, reduce [...]
I Left My Bike Outside of San Francisco 2008-08-21 10:12:22 San Francisco
developed a plan to enhance bike riding for its residents and create a safer biking environment. In 2004, the city released a 527-page plan with maps, analysis, and a call for more bike lanes and better bike parking. With the improvements, they had hoped to increase bike commuting to 10% of the total [...] Read more:Outside
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A Lively Pair of Flip Flops 2008-08-20 18:43:01 Walking through a plot of fresh grass in your bare feet feels glorious, right? But what if you could saw a patch of grass into your flip flops? Would you do it?
I don’t think I would be game for such footwear, but apparently the creators over at Krispy Kreme – yes, the guys [...] Read more:Flip Flops
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The Oasis That Was Sahara 2008-08-15 14:41:13 This article about the Sahara
being green several thousand years ago gave me a fresh perspective on climate change. It turns out that climate change is, after all, a natural and cyclical process our planet undergoes every few thousand years or so. Deserts becomes forests and vice-versa. Rivers dry out and new ones appear in [...]
Survival Is Adaptation 2008-08-15 14:36:36 I’ve seen an interesting documentary recently, it’s called Earth: Biography. It’s a visually stunning tale of our planet — how it came to be, how the volcanoes operate, what are the tectonic plates, how ice affects our climate and so on. The documentary employs computer animation to visualize some of the hypotheses it presents, but [...]
Are E-books Green? 2008-08-15 14:02:08 The concept of an e-book makes sense – you have the ability to read hundreds of books, magazines and newspapers on a digital reader, all while saving the more than 20 million trees that are cut down per year to produce books in the U.S.
But you are also using energy which is surely generated [...] Read more:Green
A More Eco Exit: Green Funerals and Eco Burials 2008-08-15 11:00:57 As we have become more aware of the impact that our living has on this planet, we also begin to recognize the effects of our dying. I came across this brief (and nostalgia-inducing) post about eco-burials and was inspired to contemplate the greening of our attitudes toward death. The traditional options: sealing yourself in an [...] Read more:Funerals
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Hope for the Humpback 2008-08-15 01:03:45 For the first time in forty years the Humpback whale is off the endangered species list. Their population currently stands on 40,000. It is now placed in the ‘least concern’ category. One of the reason for their recovery is the banning of commercial whaling in the 1960s. The reason it has taken this long for [...]
Dead Zones 2008-08-14 23:38:03 WASHINGTON — Like a chronic disease spreading through the body, “dead zones” with too little oxygen for life are expanding in the world’s oceans.
“We have to realize that hypoxia is not a local problem,” said Robert J. Diaz of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. “It is a global problem and it has severe consequences [...] Read more:Zones
Waste Not Food Not 2008-08-14 17:04:15 My mom always saved her coffee grounds and eggshells. She would put them in a flowerpot until she finally got around to putting them in her flowerbeds. Her sunflowers and tomatoes were always healthy and beautiful. My mom knew about the strong nutrients in food scraps, but I always took it as a farmer’s trick.
It [...]
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