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Sustainable Living: More Joy And Less Consumption In The Face Of Global Warming

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Why Bother? Three Great Reasons

April 21st, 2008 · 4 Comments

Of all the good pieces in today’s Green Issue of New York Times magazine, “Why Bother?” by Michael Pollan is the one that helps us see that lower-consumption lifestyles are crucial in dealing with global warming, Inventors and legislators cannot rescue us.

1.) Pollan points out that being a role model is powerful. As various citizens like you and me consume significantly less, especially in terms of fossil fuels, other

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Hillary and the Concept of Legal And Rare

March 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I’m glad that Hillary Clinton is back in the presidential race. While I wish she would mount a a truly appropriate response to global warming, I respect the way she has reached across party lines in the past as a senator to help make abortion both legal and rare. (Repeated research has shown that is what most Americans would like abortion to be.)

Let’s run today with that concept of

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Tags: bipartisan politics · climate change · environment · politics · sustainability