Q: What’s the difference between a developer and an environmentalist? A: A developer is someone who wants to build a cabin in the woods; an environmentalist is someone who already has one. (Thanks, Grist). Anyone got a better one they’d care to share?
The questions of love, kindness and the end of oil
I was just thinking. I was at a small conference put together by the New Economics Foundation at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund’s Pocantico Conference Center a couple of months ago. There were all sorts of luminaries there like Francis Moore Lappé of the Small Planet Institute and Jerry Mander of the International Forum on Globalization. […]
Are we heading towards a different/better/worse world?
Tonight I was on a panel with the author and social critic James Howard Kunstler, of whom many of you have probably heard (The Long Emergency and Geography of Nowhere, among many others). Kunstler writes and talks about many things, including the post peak oil world. (For those of you who don’t know about, its […]
Four panelists of the apocolypse
Tonight (Wednesday, July 2) at 6PM, I will be participating in a panel discussion (free but limited seating) about the crisis in the planetary habitat that we depend upon for our health, happiness and security. The event celebrates the halfway mark of a show of 56 works of art at New York’s Atlantic Gallery (135 […]
Meet real needs, make sustainable products
Here’s a question: if the need for a product has to be created by the manufacturer, if aggressive marketing is required to convince people to buy the product, can the product, no matter how renewable its materials, really be called sustainable? Because isn’t using resources to make things we don’t even need the definition of […]
From work and spend to work and, well, more work
This little essay is a work in progress. It may is a little rough, but I’m letting you have it all the same. I guess, when it comes down to it, what I’m trying to say is that the cost of living and leisure time rewards of environmental living are harder to reap if you […]
The planet’s most important number stars in a two-minute cartoon
May Boeve of 350.org, the organization that is trying to let the entire planet’s population know that atmospheric carbon dioxide needs to be stabilized at no more than 350 parts per million (ppm), wrote to me today. She wrote: “The video is live… Feel free to send it out. The cat is out of the […]
Why your business needs to listen to me…
… because a new report out from the major PR firm Porter Novelli on the market influence of deep green folks says so. Well, not just that you should listen to me, but people like me. And like the readers and commenters on this blog. We’re the people who are willing to change our lives […]