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Calling for Stories of Hope

Lindsey — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:25:00 +0000

Have you witnessed an inspirational change in your community? Every day there are stories of hope that prove that we as individuals have the capacity to create a better world for us and the people we care about. In the Sahel region of Africa, once destroyed agricultural lands are being rehabilitated using a natural and traditional [...]

Reactions to Goleman’s Ecological Intelligence

Lindsey — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:22:48 +0000

Daniel Goleman is the bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence, and his new book, Ecological Intelligence, takes a hard look at the products we buy and the hidden ecological impacts associated with their production. There is a term that Goleman discusses within the book called “information asymmetry.” The term refers to any data gap between buyers and [...]

350=Survival

madelinekovacs — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:18:48 +0000

The central coordinators at Project Survival Media made this video with 350’s Jon Warnow last week. What do you think? And what do you think about the 350 campaign? Can we get a global agreement in Copenhagen this December that will get us back to 350ppm CO2?

Apple Leaves US Chamber over Climate

Jerry Barney — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:48:24 +0000

The Washington Postreports Apple Computer has left the US Chamber of Commerce because of the Chamber’s strident criticism of plans to reduce U.S. greenhouse emissions. Apple is now the fourth major company in recent weeks to pull out of the Chamber. Others include: Pacific Gas and Electric, PNM Resources, and Exelon. Nike has resigned its [...]

Inspiring message from Hiroshima children

Jerry Barney — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:28:46 +0000

The following is from a full page ad in the New York Times today (page D9): Dear President Obama, We are junior high and senior high school students in Hiroshima, Japan. Like children everywhere, we want to live in a peaceful world. We want our own children, and their children, to live in a peaceful world too. Because [...]

Deep enough for a Deep Economy?

jessie — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:50:59 +0000

A review of Bill McKibben's book, Deep Economy.

There is no Box: Defining our Political Reality

BlessedUnrest — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:44:43 +0000

“There is no box” is the opening statement for Lester Brown’s book Plan B 3.0 Mobilizing to save civilization which you can download for free. This is not intended to be a book review so suffice to say Mr. Brown does provide a variety of innovative plans that can, and are, helping to save the [...]

Climate Engineering

mary — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:21:41 +0000

Geo-Engineering has been re-baptized and is now known as Climate Engineering. John Tierney of the New York Times Tierney Lab Blog noted that Climate Engineering is, “slightly less grandiose.” Climate Engineering is looking more and more technically feasible and financially possible compared to gradual emissions cuts and pledges that we have already failed [...]

Nuclear power's price tag

Rafadi Hakim — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 02:48:02 +0000

Although nuclear power is technically not a renewable source of energy, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) maintains a stance on promoting nuclear power as a step towards sustainable energy production. The Workshop on IAEA Tools for Nuclear Energy System Assessment for Long-Term Planning and Development from 20-23 July 2009 in Vienna, Austria, for instance, [...]

Sonia Sotomayor's Confirmation

mary — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:35:37 +0000

This past Thursday, United State Senators spent most of the day either spewing lines about how empathy has no place on the supreme court bench, that such a value distorts justice, while others held that with 3,000 cases under her belt, Sonia Sotomayor’s decisions could be carefully examined for any lack of justice; and there [...]