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Environment
Spin, counter-spin, counter-counter-spin and on and on
Watch the short video above. At first, you think, that proves it. If cell phones can make popcorn kernels pop, the claims that cell phones cause brain tumors must be true (read here for nonspin background on this possibility). The industry denials, the video seems to confirm, are just spin. But then you go to […]
Equity or the end of the planet
Yesterday I posted this joke: 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. What struck me about it was the truth in it, a truth we need to be aware of. […]
An antidote to yesterday’s earnestness
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 […]