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Obama on the Environment 2008-09-13 12:17:37 <<This is an adaptation and update on a previous post on Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama
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In the spring of 2008, there was an interfaith forum called the “Compassion Forum” run by Oxfam, Faith in Public Life, Messiah College, and the One campaign on religion in which Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton were asked questions on [...] Read more:Environment
Where to Buy Locally-Produced Food 2008-09-12 13:51:20 Say you’ve been convinced that buying locally grown meat and produce is better for you, others, and the earth. Or maybe you just realize that it tastes much better than the industrial, transported-thousands-of-miles food in the supermarket. Where do you go?
Luckily for us, there are several websites that will help you to find places selling [...]
Waste Away: Food in the Garbage 2008-08-25 17:28:03 There’s miching mallecho afoot in how the world sees and uses food. Some people will be surprised to learn that the world actually does produce enough food to go around - the food crisis is a crisis of distribution, not production.
So what’s happening to all that extra food? It’s being thrown out. [...] Read more:Garbage
Don’t Breathe The Air: Air Pollution and Bee Die-off 2008-08-25 16:20:13 By now, you probably have heard that bees are in trouble. Worldwide bee populations have declined drastically, at least by 1/3 in the last 2 years, with some honeybee keepers reporting losses up to 90%, and Croatia losing 5 million bees in 48 hours, says this excellent BBC article which is an excerpt from the [...] Read more:Pollution
Palm Oil, Not So Delicious 2008-08-22 14:49:24 Palm oil, literally oil from a type of palm tree, has been picked up for use in processed and pre-packaged foods (like snack crackers, cookies, etc.) and cosmetics. It is natural, which seems like a plus, and also helps to extend food shelf life. So what’s the problem?
The problem is that due to [...] Read more:Delicious
Reverence for Life Principle 2008-07-11 18:12:57 I came across the following quote from Nobel Laurate Dr. Albert Scweitzer, a Protestant French/German ethicist, doctor and musician who lived from 1875-1965.
As in my own will-to-live there is a longing for wider life and pleasure, with dread of annihilation and pain; so is it also in the will-to-live all around me, whether it can [...] Read more:Principle
Learning to Be Green: The WALL-E Effect 2008-07-07 15:45:30 I was at a dinner party the other day when, upon hearing of my interest in environmental ethics, a lady brought the new Pixar movie WALL-E up in conversation. WALL-E is about the last Clean-Up robot standing after humans have left the planet due to trash from rampant consumerism, induced by the huge corporation, Buy [...] Read more:Learning
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Reduce, Recycle, Reuse and Electronics 2008-06-28 14:34:20 Computers, IPods, CDs, phones - these gadgets make our lives easier (and more annoying if you have to spend hours on the phone with tech support). In some ways, these gadgets also help us to live more green, through reducing our need for paper, maximizing efficiency in manufacturing and HR, etc. In other ways, our [...] Read more:Recycle
, Reuse
Helping Africa: Hybrid rather than Genetically Modified Seeds 2008-06-12 15:08:54 A friend passed along an interesting article that unfortunately is not available for free sharing entitled “Agriculture’s Last Frontier: Africa
n Farmers, US Companies Try to Create Another Breadbasket with Hybrid
s” by Roger Thurow from the Wall Street Journal. As I’m sure all of you know, agriculture in Africa has been largely hard-hit due to political [...] Read more:Helping
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Children and the Benefits of the Outdoors 2008-06-10 19:48:22 I wanted to bring people’s attention to an organization I recently have heard about, Children
and Nature Network (C&NN). I got a chance to hear and speak to one of its founders and most public faces, author Richard Louv, at an event promoting his newest book, which was sponsored by Michael Smerconish of CBS radio, [...] Read more:Benefits
, Outdoors
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