Walking the dog with my wife this morning, I confessed to her that I’m a bit sad–“just sad for the world, I guess.” Indian author Suzanna Arundhati Roy sure doesn’t see it that way, and what a bold voice of …
Tag: sustainability
Dear Apple and Google: We Don’t Need New Phones Every Year……
….. and we really wish we could stop landfilling the toxic chemicals in our old, perfectly good electronics. We are becoming increasingly aware of the issues associated with sustainability, and you could help us by selling us less stuff we …
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U.S. to International Criminal Court: Go Die
In response to the meme here a reader noted, “This decision is welcome news to everyone who believes that the perpetrators of war crimes should not enjoy impunity, no matter how powerful they are. (The decision) vindicates the rule of …
Oh Happy Day: Trump Kills Electric Vehicle Tax Credit Extension
From this article: The oil industry, a staunch opponent of electric vehicles (EVs), received an early Christmas present from the White House as President Trump reportedly intervened to quash an EV tax credit expansion from inclusion in a government spending package.
Tagged with: 500, common sense gun laws, Consumers who purchase an EV can currently claim a credit up to $7, oil industry funding worked hard to kill the clean energy incentives, oil industry staunch opponent of electric vehicles (EVs), planet that is no longer warming due to human activity, sustainability, Trump specifically pushed for excluding the EV tax credit, what the common American might happen to care about has precisely zero on our law-making processes
From Guest Blogger JT: What Is the Value in Socially Responsible Investing?
Money. It’s tough to make, but often even more difficult to determine how to spend it. Market conditions, risk analysis, and estimated ROI are just a few of the factors you will have to review to determine what makes the …
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From Guest Blogger Emily Folk: Does Growing Organic Food Require More Energy?
There are plenty of good reasons to get excited about organic farming and growing organic food. Of course, organic agriculture is also sometimes misunderstood. It seeks to produce as much food as possible without the use of genetic engineering and …
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America: When It Comes To Sustainability, You Have a Choice
I love this meme. Shopping for its own sake does seem to be conventional American behavior, but how satisfying can it be? Wouldn’t it be cooler (and more sustainable) to just go out and commit an act of kindness?
Solar Powered Gizmos and Thingamabobs
The only good thing one can say about the ever-growing world of gadgetry is that some of these contraptions run on solar energy, adding a dimension of cool to a universe of thingamajigs that would otherwise be fairly uninteresting.
Poor Getting Poorer: Not Sustainable
One may say that the content of the meme here is obscene. I would submit, however, that while extreme wealth isn’t a problem, situations like these are, where you and I, through our taxes, are picking up the tab for the …
Corporate CEOs Need To Be Held To New Standards
This is funny, but what’s truly at fault here is that corporate governance is necessarily about maximizing profit; these people aren’t at liberty to act otherwise. More correctly, if a CEO of a publicly traded company were to act otherwise, …
