Pretty Places And Conflict Resolution

In honor of Earth Day, I’m going to post a little news story about Afghanistan’s first national park and the concept of peace parks.
Weird Connotation, Cool Concept
Doesn’t the name “peace park” just bring all sorts of images of granola eating vegan hippies singing about free love? It does to me! Luckily, it is [...]

Reaction to Obama’s Cabinet Picks

Obama has recently unveiled more members of his cabinet, and I thought this would be a good opportunity to share my reactions to some of his picks thus far.
Secretary of State: Hillary Clinton
While I’m glad he picked someone with whom he does clash on some foreign policy issues, I don’t think Sen. Clinton is appropriate [...]

I Feel A Change A-Coming…

I hope I’m not getting too excited too early, but Obama is already making detailed plans to undo some key Bush policies. That may be a clear indicator of partisanship on my behalf to some, but really I see it as a big step forward for American leadership.
The priorities, as listed by the BBC are [...]

A Little Bit of Green a Day Keeps the Doctor Away

A new study has revealed that living in proximity to green spaces boosts your health. This study is especially relevant for communities who are suffering from health inequalities due to “income and social deprivation, which generally reflect differences in lifestyle, diet, and, to some extent, access to medical care”. But living near parks of woodlands [...]

Ecological Debt Worse than Financial

Hooray, I found another article comparing ecological crises to the current financial crisis! This one is fairly creative in using the idea of debt to communicate just what’s going on.
Basically, the article says that our demands on natural resources are beyond what the Earth can sustain. More than three quarters of the world’s population are [...]

Interdependent Crises: Food and Finance

As we read and hear about the current financial crisis, lets remember that people all over the world are afflicted by poverty. But we are not powerless to help them while also helping ourselves.
A survey conducted by BBC Global has revealed that the higher cost of food has hit developing countries hard.
This situation was most [...]

Loss of Biodiversity = Financial Armageddon

I saw this article on the BBC late last night, and I was super psyched by it. Its all about how the greatest long term threat to the global economy is environmental decline. I think it may make too light of the current credit crisis in order to convince everyone that the environment is just [...]

Moo, Eat More Roo

This is a horribly horrible article about a guy who must be getting paid a lot by the kangaroo meat industry. What pisses me off is this guy telling people that cow flatulence is destroying the environment. Like cars and factories and landfills aren’t the real problem. Yes, certain agricultural processes contribute significantly to green [...]

Herbivores Eating Herbivores: Food Crisis Fixed

This is a very short interesting article from a popular BBC news program, Newsnight. It doesn’t offer much in the way of conclusions, but I like that its encouraging the talk.
“‘The best solution would be for us all to become vegetarians’.So suggested the head of the UN climate agency, Yvo de Boer, who is [...]

The Inevitable

It was bound to happen wasn’t it? Delving into the whole green life thing, it was almost certain I’d start experimenting with vegetarianism. Lori, I blame you for introducing me to the wikipedia article on environmental vegetarianism.
Basically, I’ve developed a personal conviction against the modern meat industry. I don’t have a moral issue with [...]