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Happy World Population Day
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Today is World Population Day, a day set aside by the United Nations to focus upon the pressing issue of global population growth. Quite simply, as I have argued elsewhere, we as a species are over-running our environment, threatening it and ourselves with a serious backlash of......Read More
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Posted on: 2009-07-11 08:59:29 |
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Holidays
World Population Day
Environmentalism
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Localism: The Revival of Eating Close to Home
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For Steve Hayes
Who prompted this to rise up in my queue.
And Ward Ryan
Who finds the topic meritous too.
It is curious that the conventional apprehension of environmentalism overlooks one of the greatest ways in which we as a species impact our environment -- by what we eat.......Read More
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Posted on: 2009-07-10 09:57:29 |
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Environmentalism
Localism
Food
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Ethical Vegetarianism
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I was reminded today by a reader's commentary of several blogs I wrote a few months back on environmental issues. It made me feel remiss as I have been neglecting that topic in my blogs, however important it is to me. In part to begin amends, and to amplify on a dietary ethic I seem......Read More
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Posted on: 2009-06-16 07:13:23 |
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Environment
Ethics
Vegetarianism
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Livestock and Global Warming in India
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Yet another in a series of dire warnings about our environment. I promise, my next blog will be humorous. Earlier, I tried calling attention to how the gasses excreted by our livestock pose just as serious a threat to global warming as does our automotive exhaust. But while you......Read More
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Posted on: 2009-04-13 09:36:25 |
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Environment
Methane
Global Warming
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Low Water Supplies in Mexico City
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Earlier I have blogged on the topic of diminishing global supplies of fresh water, in light of our population growth and environmental impact. It's a serious issue which is not that dramatic, until it is too late. Today time.com posted an article about the shortages in Mexico......Read More
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Posted on: 2009-04-13 03:32:36 |
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Environment
Water
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California Water Shortages
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I must be thirsty to be dwelling on this topic for my last three blogs. But, I just read the mastheads of the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Jose Mercury News. Like most people these days, I don't actually BUY a newspaper, I read my news feeds online. But these......Read More
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Posted on: 2009-03-23 15:12:23 |
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Environment
Water
California
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Davos Conference on Future Water Shortages
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There is a limited, but devoted interest in this community regarding my thread of blogs on water issues. Just now, I read an article from Davos, Switzerland in connection with World Water Day. Here is a major excerpt from that article.
Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 29......Read More
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Posted on: 2009-03-23 09:03:29 |
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Environment
Water
Davos
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Cow Farts and Global Warming
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This is sort of social experiment, as I am reposting an earlier blog which had a boring title and consequently very little traffic compared to my other postings. Let's see how many people read it now that it has been retitled. Originally it was called:
Environmental Impact of......Read More
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Posted on: 2009-03-18 18:58:20 |
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Environment
Methane
Global Warming
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