If this reads a little bit like a love letter to my husband, well, maybe it is. I couldn’t help but think of him when I read last week’s New York Times article on the increase in marital disputes over environmental concerns.
In the caveats connected to giving up my dishwasher, I mentioned that my marriage [...]
The framing was right.
… even if you doubt the evidence, providing incentives for energy-efficiency and clean energy are the right thing to do for our future -– because the nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy…
The call to action was admirable.
Meanwhile, China is not waiting to [...]
Wow, what a week.
First we had the senatorial election in Massachusetts. Whatever your politics, the election of Scott Brown was bad news for climate change policy in the United States (and possibly across the world). The cap and trade bill was already stalled, and now you can move it one vote further away from ever [...]
Last week I wrote about how when we’re presented with a choice, most of us stick with the default option. One commenter noted that it has worked for her family with gluten-based snack food. I bet it was far less painful than convincing her teenagers to forsake their cookies! Since then, I’ve been thinking about [...]
I am not comfortable with being called an environmentalist, which is funny considering how many times in a week I am called a hippy treehugger and respond with a grin and a nod. I’ve been thinking about it, and have come to the conclusion that I don’t like the environmentalist label because I associate it [...]
Have you ever had one of those moments when you realized that not everyone was on the same page? Not all on board? I had one of those moments yesterday. And then I realized that it’s because it doesn’t exist. Because people don’t read – they just wait for the movie to [...]
Happy Friday, peeps. And happy New Year, everyone! Or everyone on the Gregorian calendar that is. (Wikipedia = time suck.)
To be honest, until I got back online yesterday morning, I hadn’t even registered that today would be the first day of a new decade. But it seems that over the last week, everyone else has [...]
Meandering through the newsosphere (can I call mainstream media the newsosphere if I access it online?), I stumbled upon two facts which, in and of themselves, were both unsurprising and not terribly interesting.
American citizens have an abiding faith in technology, more so than any other country in the world.
Americans don’t believe in climate change.
Individually, each [...]
I spent last Thursday and Friday fasting, taking my second turn in our rolling fast in support of Climate Justice Fast. The first time around, I was struck not as much by the absence of food as I was by the ready availability of clean, affordable water (my thoughts are included in Greenfyre’s Hunger Strike [...]
What: The Hyperlocavore Book Club
Reading: The Transition Handbook
Where: Hyperlocavore.com
Why: Because intelligent discussion about books is great!
I was particularly pleased that The Transition Handbook (by Rob Hopkins) won the vote for the first round of the newly formed Hyperlocavore Book Club, because I was fascinated by the Bright Green vs. Transition Towns discussion that has been [...]
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