I’m actually turning in the final draft this week. Do you think you guys can do without me for one day while I keep my eye on the ball?
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While the governments save the economy, who saves the planet?
While the stock market took another nosedive after news that–guess what?–we’re in a recession, The New York Times last week published a story about how the slump may limit moves on clean energy. According to the story: “From Italy to China, the threat to jobs, profits and government tax revenues posed by the financial crisis has […]
The true cost of our cars
I’ve said before that if our automobiles really make us happy, then to hell with the planet. The thing is, I don’t think they do. Listen: American adults average 72 minutes a day behind the wheel of a car, according to the WorldWatch Institute. That’s more than twice as much time as the average American […]
Christmas with no presents
Here’s the beginning of an article of mine that’s in this month’s Yes! Magazine: If Christmas is about presents, then in 2007, my little family and I had no Christmas. I mean, we had the caroling and the uncle playing the piano and the cousins running around with my three-year-old, Isabella, and the grandfather coaxing her to sit […]
We’ve got something wonderful going on here
In case you haven’t seen, these come via Tuco Rides: Photographer Norbert Rosing planned to take some sunset photos of a group of sled dogs near Churchill, Manitoba, in northern Canada on the Hudson Bay, when from stage left comes a 1200 pound polar bear. The dogs’ owner thinks he’s just about to lose his […]
About just doing our best to make a change
Jen from Brooklyn once left, as a comment, the story of Nachshon, who was the first of the Jews to enter the Red Sea when fleeing from Egypt. Nachshon, she wrote, was just this guy, not a leader or anything like that. Nachshon didn’t have the slightest idea how he was going to get across […]
Because our backs aren’t against the wall
Sorry for the swearing, but I was at an exhibition of activist art from the 1960s and I saw this poster. I believe the boy in the picture is burning his draft card. What struck me is the fact that this boy doesn’t look like a hippie or an activist or anyone at all who […]
More on living the green life out loud
Yesterday, I posted on making a spectacle of living green as a way of bringing attention to our environmental emergency. It turns out I’m not the only one who uses the strategy. Lots of readers left behind comments on their lifestyle strategies for getting attention (see the end of the post). Among those readers is […]