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Category Archives: nature
Earth is the new bottom line
Yesterday I wrote about air money, and I explained that one reason companies can look more profitable than they are is because our standard accounting practices don’t require them to mention that, oh, by the way, they just destroyed a … Continue reading
Posted in nature, politics, spirituality
Tagged cooperation, ecological economics, financial crisis, natural resources, recycling, sustainability, Tom Friedmann
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Air money—or bringing the financial crisis down to Earth
The present economic crisis has been explained in many ways: a mortgage meltdown, a housing bubble burst, the collapse of fancy financial instruments. But all of these explanations point to a problem that plagues our economic system at its core: … Continue reading
Posted in education, nature, politics
Tagged ecological economics, economics, financial crisis, Herman Daly, Michael Mandel
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Sunday birding notes
A beautiful, cloudless bright day today with a stiff breeze–which made for a quiet day of birding. Five miles outside of Boulder at Walden Ponds–open pits from gravel mining fifty years ago that filled with water and are now a … Continue reading
10 reasons to shlep your laundry outdoors to dry
Okay, it may not be spring yet, but here in Boulder we’ve been having a two-week warm streak. Yesterday, in 70 degrees, I hung laundry on the line strung across our second-floor deck while house finches trilled in the pines … Continue reading
Posted in nature, spirituality, writing
Tagged birds, global warming, poetry, saving energy, writing
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Stuff, sustainability, and students–facts or bias?
The board of trustees for the schools of Missoula County, Montana, recently banned a short film on sustainability from being shown in classrooms. Their reason? The film, according to the one parent who complained about it, is “biased and ill-suited” … Continue reading
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Tagged consumerism, critical thinking, natural resources, pollution, sustainability
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