We need a peaceful revolution in thinking and living. The problem is that the revolutionaries are otherwise engaged. They’re delivering Fedex packages, waiting tables, driving taxis, entering data and countless other tasks–including, yes, writing books and blogs–for 12 hours a day. They’re working their butts off to afford the gas and the car payments and […]
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The worst and the of best corporate efforts on climate change
Climate Counts, a non-profit that scores the commitment to reversing climate change of 56 major corporations in well-known consumer sectors–from apparel to electronics to fast food–today released their second annual company scorecard (read the full report here and the summary here). Climate Counts gives scores from 0 to 100, based on 22 criteria used to […]
Bottlemania
An excellent new book tells the story of our drinking water crisis by focusing, in particular, on the bitter dispute that erupted between the townspeople of Fryeburg, Maine, and Nestle’s Poland Spring, which wanted to bottle their water. Bottlemania, by Garbage Land author Elizabeth Royte, will be out in bookstores in the coming weeks (you […]
More species extinction means more global warming
A week or two ago, I wrote about how if environmental damage is hurting other species, it’s hurting us. I wrote about how the massive number of extinctions that are occurring–some 20 to 50% of our species are expected to be gone within 100 years–cannot occur without fundamentally weakening the planetary systems we depend upon […]
A No Impact Mother’s Day note
The folks at 1SKy, whose mission is to focus the power of millions of Americans on the goal of federal action to reduce global warming, is coordinating a special, nationwide Mothers’ Day action to bring lawmakers’ attention to out concern about government inaction. 1Sky asked me if I might write a special, Mothers’ Day post […]
Is there a U.S. candidate with the backbone to do something about climate?
Back in February, I wrote about about what the U.S. presidential candidates’ said about mitigating climate change. At that time, McCain’s proposals were the weakest while there wasn’t much air between what Clinton and Obama proposed. The question remained, however, about what each of the candidates, if they won the presidency, would actually do about […]
LV GRN: Keeping our drinking water fresh
Yesterday, I wrote about “peak water,” and how we could eventually pay out our noses for drinking water if we continue to allow water sources to be privatized while letting our municipal water systems degrade. To help preserver our water systems, one of the things we did during the No Impact project, and continue to […]
When what’s happening to gas happens to drinking water
Let’s start with the fairy tale that came true for the gasoline magnates: Once upon a time, a number of companies bought up drilling rights here and oil refineries there and eventually gained control over the USA’s gasoline. For a while, gasoline hovered under $2 a gallon, and the companies and magnates had to console […]