Tag Archives: sustainability

This Earth Day: Do Something that Hurts…Until it Feels Good

Ask any person if they are sustainable and the answer is a resounding, “Yes.” After all, we’re all good people, and we want to save the earth, so we do our part. This one recycles beer cans. That one installs … Continue reading

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Foods that Give Us (Greenhouse) Gas

We are what we eat and what we eat is a mighty contributor to our planet getting warmer. It is also a strong indicator of our individual health. From either perspective, beef is the big bad bogeyman of our diet, … Continue reading

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Human Evolution Begets Labor Day Travel

Humans are wanderers by nature. Our innate drive to explore—and conquer—has driven us to invade every corner of our earth, adapt to inhospitable environments, and now that we’ve run out of earth-bound frontiers, dive deep into the sea and reach … Continue reading

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Expanding the Scope of Genesis…according to The New York Times

“Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing … Continue reading

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Audiobook Orgy Part 2: Green Metropolis

What is the most sustainable place in the United States? Boulder, Colorado? Davis, California? New York, New York? David Owen, New Yorker writer and master of counterintuitive arguments advocates for the latter. Per capita energy use in New York City is … Continue reading

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