environment
November 13, 2009
- A few weeks ago I stopped in a great independent book store in La Jolla California called D. G. Wills and found some great books in the stacks . . one of them was "My First Summer in the Sierra's" by John Muir. Written in 1896 it was a wonderful book of the way things were and the way they still are. . .some people want to save the environment from harm by living small and being aware ...
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October 29, 2009
- Yet another report accuses Israel of human rights abuses, this time for denying Palestinians water. By Matt Beynon Rees - GlobalPostJERUSALEM — Human-rights reports condemning Israel’s dealings with the Palestinians have become so frequent of late they’re like the dripping of Chinese water torture.In the last few months, there have been reports on the conduct of Israeli forces in Gaza, on ...
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October 5, 2009
- This week in my environmental blog, I've started blogging about all the ordinary things I run across as an environmental reporter that turn out to be bad for you, or bad for the planet. Like, salad. How can salad be bad? Well, like just about everything, it depends on where it comes from. As I reported last spring in Sierra magazine, the big salad and spinach packagers have imposed some ...
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October 1, 2009
- I've been asked the question a million times. Do you believe there is any such thing as Global Warming? Knowing the split beliefs or views on the subject, my response is usually something like, "Don't ask the question, if you aren't prepared to hear the answer." But, the person questioning me, usually has to push just enough to get me going (once it was a ...
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September 30, 2009
- That's what I was thinking the other day as I drove my Prius to the recycling center, and went shopping with my eco-friendly grocery bags. Then, I had a good laugh at myself for feeling so ecologically holier-than-thou...Until last Thursday night when I was driving home from Boston. Tired from a day of meetings and hours of driving, I decided to stop at a Dunkin Donuts on the way home. But having ...
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September 22, 2009
- Dear Participants of the UN General Assembly: The last few days, I'm in a funk. According to Dr. Oz on the Oprah website that's fine. I can take some macca or some ginseng. According to Maureen Dowd's Op-Ed from September 19th in the New York Times, it's to be expected. Overall, women aren't very happy these days. The global recession is causing stress all over the place. According to Dowd women ...
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September 20, 2009
- Earth Day. It’s a long way away. I don’t know if I can wait to plant more trees in my backyard until April 2010. Environmentalists say that planting trees is a way of “putting down roots” (clever, huh?) while helping planet earth. As we learned in second grade, trees do the following: filter pollution from the air, help recycle water, prevent soil loss, create shade, give ...
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September 6, 2009
- When in Monterey/Pacific Grove, California, my wife and I always make time-space for a real monument to hope in these environmentally perilous times: the Monterey Bay Aquarium, located in Monterey’s Cannery Row. (Continued in Articles and stories)
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August 19, 2009
- The Archdruid returns from vacation with a flurry of unexpected announcements and a glimpse at a future resembling nothing so much as the nineteeth-century past. The latest post from The Archdruid Report.
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August 19, 2009
- There has been a lot of talk lately about The Environment - that rabid poodle Al "Ring Master" Gore keeps dragging out onto stage like some rhesus monkey with a robot brain at a mad scientist's convention. "Look at The Environment!" he yells, pushing that monstrosity into our faces. "Look at what we have done to it! It's diseased! It's horrible! Look how we scarred her ...
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