The Ethics of Eating Animals

The Ethics of Eating An...

Throwing down my burrito this morning, I had finally had it. The industrial oil was clearly tastable, and the chicken tasted like someone had assorted mushed paper mache with chicken flavoring in a kiln. Awful. I nearly threw it up. I picked up a paper that discussed animal consumption...
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Is Las Vegas Green?

Is Las Vegas Green?...

Petropolitics aside, the broad desert spans of Nevada could be soaking up solar energy in record waves. The old saying what happens in Las Vegas stays in Vegas is never more untrue than in the waste disposal analysis and energy consumption of this desert oasis of sustainability reason. Green...
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Sierra Club Special Off...

Free Rucksack & Calendar for $15 donation. *** Join the Sierra Club! For a limited time, when you become a Sierra Club member we’ll send you the 1892 Rucksack and a Wilderness Wall Calendar – free! In addition, your membership will also earn you these exciting benefits: One-year...
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Placedness and Suburban Reduction

Placedness and Suburban...

A piece in a new issue of Business Week hit on the reduction dynamic taking place in American residential habits. What the author calls “localism sounds very green. Kotkin’s piece thoughtfully traces scholarly leftovers of the Chicago School’s emerging ecologies...
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Once More Into the Breach…

Once More Into the Brea...

Dam-cam Oregon: In Grant’s Pass, Oregon, the dam came tumbling down. On purpose. And the people threw up their hands and cheered…And if the fish could cheer they would throw up their fins in glee. Activists fighting their hardest to save the fish beating themselves against...
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Green Thumbery Plantopia

Green Thumbery Plantopi...

The Winter garden should be going into the ground right about now. What makes your garden grow? China isn’t growing three headed celery roots in Outer Mongolia, but their Inner Mongolian pollution is a problem. If your garden needs first aid, strike before the Chinese yen buys...
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Top 100 Green Companies

Top 100 Green Companies...

The recent issue of Newsweek has on its cover the top 100 green companies. This list is headed by Hewlett Packard, Dell, and many other familiar names. Even Starbucks cracked the top ten. But the really interesting reading comes when you read how they arrived at the rankings. Why...
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Recyclo Journalism

Recyclo Journalism...

I’ll say this for the quality of journalism that hath not strained in previous decades to cover recycling or environmental issues except as onetime features or special pieces. If you grew in the 1970’s the general information pieces were not nearly as science informed...
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Sierra Clubs Tahoe Water Development

Sierra Clubs Tahoe Wate...

  Bravo to the Sierra Club. Los Angeles Times today reports: A federal judge is blocking construction of boating facilities on Lake Tahoe while he resolves an environmental lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed by the League to Save Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Club, challenges new regulations...
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Recycling as Recreation

Recycling as Recreation...

Nobody likes cleaning up their room. Things get messy as a matter of course. but methods can be employed to get things straightened out. But if you keep the room as orderly as possible there is the least upkeep required. This is a good rule of thumb. The same could said of the earth’s...
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