Tag: social justice

Though I don’t normally cover the news on extreme sports, I do need to mention that NBC took Olympic gold last night in the Extreme Cruelty event, ascending to the top of the podium for their talk on camera with men’s …

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The no-nukes people are celebrating a considerable victory today out here in sunny California: the permanent closing of the San Onofre Nuclear Waste Generating Station.  Anti-nuclear activist Ace Hoffman writes: The letter that (senior vice president and chief nuclear officer …

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My mother, who reads this blog regularly, hates it when I come out in support of concepts that could be viewed as leftist – and even if that weren’t the case, I try to tread lightly on the political content …

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It’s the birthday of theologian Martin Luther who, when he became disillusioned with the bureaucracy and corruption of the Catholic Church, wrote up his attack and published the famous 95 Theses. Luther’s ideas led to the Protestant Reformation, arguably the biggest single transformation …

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As environmentalist Paul Hawken points out in this video of his presentation to the Bioneers, there are at least 200,000 organizations in our world today whose mission is some combination of environmentalism, sustainability, and social justice. I know I face …

Paul Hawken Discusses the Largest Movement in the World Today Read More »

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