environment | environment
Mar.04.2009
Right before Christmas last year I went to Sacred Fools Theater to see Bill Robens' musical "Mulholland: A Christmas Carol." The play, the best written about Los Angeles since Luis Valdez's "Zoot Suit," shows the choice between greed or generosity and is particularly...
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Feb.25.2009
Yesterday, I saw heroic environmental activist, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,speak before a group of NRDC supporters in San Francisco. The evening started with a documentary narrated by Red Room Author Peter Coyote. The video was moving and poignant and made me want to donate immediately. It’s amazing...
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Feb.25.2009
Santa Monica College (SMC) where I work has showed a commitment to ecology the last 8 years by recylcing and its Sustainable Works education Program. When I started teaching there I was happy to see the blue recyling bins in the cafeteria and the faculty computer room. I've taught in a lot of...
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Feb.11.2009
The Archdruid explores the presuppositions and value judgments that keep modern industrial society stuck in a dysfunctional relationship to nature in the latest essay on The Archdruid Report.
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Jan.01.2009
In spring of 2008 I stopped using plastic bags because I learned that millions of our plastic bags are in the Pacific Ocean killing birds and fish. In the spring at Santa Monica College I heard Marcus Eriksen read from his book "My River Home: A Journey from the Gulf War to the Gulf...
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Dec.10.2008
When my book was accepted for publication by Salt, one of my first thoughts, when I had stopped jumping up and down and weeping, was that I wanted Eco-Libris, a company founded by Israelis that I had written about when I was a journalist, to "balance out" the paper that would be used to...
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Dec.09.2008
Allow me to start by getting something straight: I´ve never been to the Amazon rainforest. I´ve only crossed it by plane. 99% per cent of the Brazilian population has seen it through pictures. If you´re surprised, check the Brazilian map and population density and you´ll understand.
That said, let...
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Dec.08.2008
Entire world is heading towards an unknown abyss of grief and pain.We are loosing command over our senses and ability to think genuinely. Some time it seems that we are at the verge of collapse from our existence.Trees on a road side are confused seeing people hurriedly...
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Nov.07.2008
When I talked to Bart Smith this autumn, it wasn’t all that long after he had finished a hike that took him at least 15,000 miles around the U.S., including around 1,200 in Wisconsin.
Bart is a photographer who has walked all eight of the National Park Service’s national scenic trails. That...
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Sep.29.2008
A few months ago the Presidential election seemed a self-contained narrative, an uncomplicated drama starring Barack and Hillary, and then Barack and John. Democrats feared that if their candidate threatened to win, the Republicans would pull an “October surprise,” and speculation centered on...
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