how you can save the world archive for September 2008
Memo on saving the world: the Copenhagen Consensus
If you want to save the world, you have only so much money, time and attention. So the question is - what effort should you throw yourself into that provides the biggest bang for the buck? The Copenhagen Consensus...
POSTED Monday, September 29, 2008
POSTED Monday, September 29, 2008
Tomorrow matters, as much as today
When the world seems to be falling down all around us, can we afford to spend our time thinking about the future? In the midst of ongoing wars, accelerating economic collapse, and cascading environmental ruin, it’s easy to dismiss...
POSTED Friday, September 26, 2008
POSTED Friday, September 26, 2008
Change the food system, and you can change the world
I spent Wednesday and Thursday of last week at Zeitgeist, the annual meeting that Google hosts for its partners and a few invited guests. On Wednesday afternoon, during the “Serious Sustainability” session, the award-winning author and journalism professor Michael...
POSTED Tuesday, September 23, 2008
POSTED Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Why your personal carbon footprint matters
One of my proudest moments as an environmentalist came when the Santa Monica Main Public Library answered my plea to install more bike racks. The racks were hard won: I photo-documented then blogged about the over-crowded racks at the...
POSTED Thursday, September 18, 2008
POSTED Thursday, September 18, 2008
Modern communication and literacy — can't we have both?
One of the most important ways to work for a better future is to improve communications between and among people. With all the instant media available today, we could foresee a future in which we can reach out to...
POSTED Monday, September 15, 2008
POSTED Monday, September 15, 2008
Is your cheeseburger causing global warming?
Little things can have a surprising impact. Take global warming. Increasingly, we’re being asked to think about our “carbon footprint,” the amount of greenhouse gas produced to do the things we do: emissions from our cars, emissions from the...
POSTED Wednesday, September 10, 2008
POSTED Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Where will the average stand in a world filled with genetically enhanced beauty and ability?
In Grover Beach, California, nineteen-year-old Cameron Clapp trains for his next track meet — on battery-powered, robotic metal legs. Meanwhile, in Framingham, Mass. a pharmaceutical company is splicing human genes into cow and goat embryos, enabling the animals to...
POSTED Monday, September 8, 2008
POSTED Monday, September 8, 2008
No Child Left Behind: the experiment, the failure, and what we need to do now
On the first day of February 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson had a phone conversation with Senator Eugene McCarthy in which he hoped to tone down McCarthy’s criticism of America’s escalating military involvement in Vietnam. Johnson, clearly frustrated by...
POSTED Wednesday, September 3, 2008
POSTED Wednesday, September 3, 2008
The humanitarian path is one of self actualization
Well, hello there! Smile. Good timing. Yes, I have had lots of thoughts out here, most fantastical with occasional but incomplete reality testing. There is a great deal of buzz these days over things combining, converging and emerging, and...
POSTED Monday, September 1, 2008
POSTED Monday, September 1, 2008