sustainability | sustainability
May.15.2013
The movement my wife and I began continues. I'm not certain what label should be applied to it. It's sort of liberation and sustainability. There are elements of reducing our carbon footprint and being self-sufficient coupled to goals of reducing our monthly financial footprint....
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Aug.19.2012
I’ve been spending long delicious hours in a tiny world, the space bordered on one side by my computer and the other by my chair. I’m doing a last pass through my manuscript, reading aloud as I edit. In a week or two, I will send it to a few lovely people who’ve agreed to read and respond, and...
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Mar.07.2012
This post on Bob Mayer's blog expresses my concern with the DIY-digital approach to publishing: CONTENT. If you're not writing something the public wants (or needs) to read, and you're not writing it well, you won't continue to sell - no matter the venue.image via profesorbaker.wordpress.comLast...
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Feb.16.2012
Since I’ve been writing fiction about people who get what they want and then have to live with the consequences (including people who take the risk of meeting their heroes), I’ve taken the excuse to meet some of my own heroes. The event, "Food, Justice, & Sustainability w/author/activist/chef...
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Feb.06.2011
Earth Days
by Roger Kuhns
Presented at the UU Fellowship, Ephraim, Wisconsin
April 25, 2010
Earth.
Day.
Earth is every day, every year, back to our beginnings, and before - a billion years and more, a trillion days and more…
… this blue and green and rocky Earth; these rich and...
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Jun.18.2010
Hey, I just published an op-ed piece in AOL News on the links between BP's Deepwater oil spill offshore in salt water and the implications of a corrective energy policy that could pollute or dry up freshwater supplies inland. Here it is:
In his Oval Office speech on the BP oil spill, President...
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May.12.2010
The discussion of the risks of complexity in the last few posts here on <i>The Archdruid Report</i> dealt in large part with abstract concepts, though the news headlines did me the favor of providing some very good examples of those concepts in action. Still, it’s time to review some...
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Oct.28.2009
I know. I know. Sustainability is actually one of the big millennia buzz words, usually referring to important things like, saving our planet. Recycle. Reduce. Reuse. I get it.
But right now I'm really worried about sustaining my hair. It's all because of the gray. Gray changes everything. It makes...
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Mar.03.2009
Here's an entry I posted at http://www.thinhouse.net -- where all future blogs by me will appear. Please check out ThinHouse, our family project in sustainable living. Tom
Linus Pauling, the great American chemist and anti-nuclear activist (plus the only person to ever win two Nobel Prizes by...
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Dec.25.2008
How come that whatever program is set up by large international organisms, no matter how well intentioned, turns out into Plunder? I usually tell to my students that there are some very good and well intentioned people (even economists!) working at the World Bank, the IMF, the UN. The problem is...
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