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We All Pull the Trigger
When confronted with terrifying and inexplicable events we experience extremely uncomfortable and seemingly unbearable individual and collective chaos. We are thrown into crisis. Nothing makes sense. Everything seems out of control. Life becomes terrifying. Our very survival appears to demand Read more
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After COP21, Cities (Not States) Will Lead the Way on Climate Action
- December 16, 2015
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I’ve just spent the last week in Paris covering the Paris Climate Talks, or COP21. The covering was productive; the COP itself, well, I suppose that depends on who you ask… According to Benjamin Barber’s 2013 book, If Mayors Ruled Read more
- DEC
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Here’s Why Your Water in the Mid-Atlantic States Is So Awesome
- December 15, 2015
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Most of us give nary a thought to tap water anymore. We bypass the sink and head right to the refrigerator to select a plastic bottle of water to quench our thirst. Not Dr. Janet Haas, chairman of the William Read more
- DEC
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A Study Did NOT Actually Find That Vegetarianism Hurts The Planet
- December 15, 2015
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Cool your jets, carnivores. Multiple headlines Tuesday suggested that a new study determined vegetarianism to be more harmful to the environment than eating meat, flying in the face previous research. But the researchers behind this new study say that’s a Read more
- DEC
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A Study Did NOT Actually Find That Vegetarianism Hurts The Planet
- December 15, 2015
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Cool your jets, carnivores. Multiple headlines Tuesday suggested that a new study determined vegetarianism to be more harmful to the environment than eating meat, flying in the face previous research. But the researchers behind this new study say that’s a Read more
- DEC
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Paris Cop 21: “This Was The Last Chance. And, We Took It”
- December 14, 2015
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One month after brutal terorist attacks claimed over 130 lives in Paris, the city of lights has emerged triumphant in presiding over the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel era. At the weekend, over 190 nations shrugged off Read more
- DEC
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Paris Climate Agreement an Air Horn in the Coal Mine
- December 14, 2015
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If pure play coal companies weren’t getting pummelled enough by the global drop in demand for their product, an agreement to reduce global greenhouse emissions signed here in Paris over the weekend will likely be the straw that breaks the Read more
- DEC
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Extrovert or Introvert, This Years Gift: A Silent Retreat
- December 14, 2015
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People are giving someone they care about the gift of a silent retreat. The more to do, the more on the mind, the more giving is the silence. Yes, even the type A, your favorite extrovert could love a few Read more
- DEC
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The Power of Paris: Climate Challenge Remains, But Now We’re on the Right Path
- December 13, 2015
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From the outset, we knew that the Paris climate summit wasn’t going to be the end of the ongoing challenge to avert dangerous climate change. As we learned through the first 20 years of U.N. negotiations, it’s extremely difficult to Read more
“Biggest Environmental Moment in History?”
- December 13, 2015
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The Road from Paris Dear friends, The world acted. Not perfectly, not timely, but with seriousness and gravity. The metaphor of the day was some variant on turning point / pivot / fork in the road / hinge of history. Read more
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