In case you missed Al Gore’s OpEd in yesterday’s New York Times: … Here is the good news: the bold steps that are needed to solve the climate crisis are exactly the same steps that ought to be taken in order to solve the economic crisis and the energy security crisis. Economists across the spectrum — including Martin […]
Making products so valuable that no one wants to throw them away
Part of why it is hard for business to really embrace deep-green environmental practice is that making profit has always been associated with high material and energy throughput. If they make products that are meant to last, they sell less, and their profits go down. Reduced material throughput, for them, means reduced income–even if it […]
Calling on the President-Elect Obama to make climate an immediate priority
From a blog post by Gillian Caldwell, executive director of 1Sky, about how we can help the President-Elect and our other newly-elected representatives do the right thing on the climate crisis: The results of yesterday’s election are encouraging for our economy and our planet’s future, but we’ll only achieve the change we need by pressing […]
Open Discussion–“We’ve come so far but we have so far to go”
These are words of the new President-Elect Barack Obama. No matter where you lie in the political divide, to see a first and secone family on a stage, one white and one black, representing the coming together of different people, in acknowledgment of the connectedness of us all, is a moment in history that we […]
Do the responsibilities of citizenship end with voting?
I’m writing this at 2:07 EST, here in New York City, on Election Day, November 4. The opinion polls have giving us an intimation of who the next President of the United States will be, but we don’t know for sure. Either way, we are all going to wake up on the morning of November […]
Would we shop the planet’s resources away if there was more fun to be had?
This is a guest post by Ruchira Shah aka Ruchi aka Arduous. I’m a recent transplant to London, and I had plans to check out the neighborhood around Ladbroke Grove. But as I sat riding the Tube, the rain started to pour down, and suddenly an afternoon of walking outdoors didn’t seem like the best […]
A story of our interconnection
I had breakfast this morning with the man I call my rabbi (though I am not Jewish), the amazing Rabbi Steve Greenberg. He brought me a copy of a new booklet “Food for Thought,” published by the New York City non-profit Hazon, which “works to create a healthier and more sustainable Jewish community, as a […]
The problem with happiness
Well, what I mean is that there is a problem with happiness as a measure of whether limited planetary resources should be used. I talk about this a lot, right? I talk a lot about how if we only choose to use the resources that actually make people happy and cut out the things that […]