beautiful, scary

An absolutely gorgeous look at our earth:“Home” by Yann Arthus Bertrand

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Thomas Berry R.I.P.

Geologian at–hopefully–the birth of the ecozoic age.
NY Times obituary here
 From here on, the primary judgment of all human institutions, professions, programs and activities will be determined by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore or foster a mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship.
Excerpt from The Great Work:
We live in a political world, a nation, a business world, [...]

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Earth Day email from the Piedmont Environmental Alliance

 

HAPPY EARTH DAY from Piedmont Environmental Alliance
This email was sent by Piedmont Environmental Alliance
1959 N Peace Haven Rd., #257
Winston-Salem, NC 27106
United States
You’ve probably already received hundreds of tips on what you SHOULD do for Earth Day – and maybe they’re now a big mish-mash in your brain. Here are ten things you SHOULDN’T do. 
  
1) [...]

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‘Here comes $500 oil’

Interesting. In September Fortune, an article about “peak oil”–that world production has reached its peak. Oil-industry insider Matt Simmons [a member of Dick Cheney's 2000  Energy Task Force] says get out of our cars, start walking and riding bikes,  “go local,”  telecommute,  grow your own food.  Time for all to begin kicking the fossil fuel habit, [...]

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Word of the day: greenwashing

‘Greenwash’ has been part of the lexicon since about 1990, Wikipedia says, and is a combination of green and whitewash — the act of exagerating or dissembling about the environmental sustainability of a company, its products or services. 
A trade pub I read recently says greenwashing is epidemic these days, and getting worse. So let the buyer beware and the commercial [...]

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A Happy & Greener New Year!

Save trees. Eliminate paper waste.
Resolve that for $15 a year you’ll sign up at Greendimes.
Greendimes makes it really easy to eliminate junk snail mail and reduce the amount of paper waste and trees chopped. Stop all those catalogs from companies you never buy from, all the mailings from philanthropic orgs you sent a $25 donation [...]

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