Culture Change… Shopping our way out of it? 29 Jul 201128 Mar 2013 So, there's a kind of thinking about sustainability that is very pro-business, that says "if we just bought better stuff, the world would be a better place." And, to an…
climate… Twelve year old Severn Suzuki speaking at the UN Earth Summit (1992) « Critical Docs 20 Jul 201120 Jul 2011 Came across this on a kind-of wikiwalk... just... wow. It's still mostly in "Litany" mode, but I think this is getting at what I meant by the way the stories…
climate… Bill McKibben’s Extreme Weather Oped 5 Jul 2011 Powerful Video of Bill McKibben's Extreme Weather Oped. Can we definitively say that any one "freak" record-breaking event was caused by the increased concentrations of carbon in the atmosphere? No.…
disasters… “My bet is on the hairless monkey.” 29 May 201129 May 2011 From the Center for Pattern Literacy (Permaculture visionary and Gaia's Garden author Toby Hemenway's site) comes this refreshingly sober and calm blog entry on the realities of Peak Oil: Apocalypse, Not | Pattern…
disasters… Embracing the Anthropocene 25 May 201125 May 2011 Embracing the Anthropocene - NYTimes.com. An important look at our capacity to change our home planet, and how we choose to think about it. Revkin's thoughtful comments include: Earth is…
justice… Environmental Justice and Sustainable Communities 29 Apr 201129 Apr 2011 As part of Cabrillo College's 5th Annual Social Justice Conference, I'm hosting a discussion of issues of environmental justice and the connections between social justice, environmental health, the rights of indigenous peoples, social equity and sustainability. Here…
disasters… This Earth Week: Taking America Back From the Polluters — Green For All 20 Apr 201111 May 2020 This Earth Week: Taking America Back From the Polluters — Green For All. Excerpts from a stirring speech by Green for All's CEO Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins on the 1 year anniversary…
money culture Taxing Issues 15 Apr 20118 Aug 2011 This was originally posted on my old Apegrrl blog here: 5/14/03 Taxing Issues. It seemed fitting to repost, just in time for Tax Day. It's unedited, save for the removal or…
education Second Nature: Sustainability in Higher Education 11 Apr 201111 Apr 2011 Share the Second Nature story!. - Excellent little video about why we can't wait to make sustainability THE priority at colleges and universities.
disasters… Prevention, Unsung Heroes, and the Big Picture 27 Mar 201127 Mar 2011 I heard an NPR piece this afternoon about awards for outstanding work by air traffic controllers. When they do their best, it doesn't make the news. Perhaps even the passengers in…
Ponderings of a Perplexed Primate 