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Good news for creeks
This week the Environmental Protection Agency took a step to slow mountaintop removal coal mining by writing letters to the Army Corp of Engineers expressing serious concerns about two mining operations in the Appalachians. In mountaintop removal, mountains are blasted … Continue reading
Posted in nature, politics
Tagged creeks, EPA, mountaintop removal, natural resources, streams, sustainability, water policy, Wendell Berry
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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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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
Posted in education, nature, politics
Tagged consumerism, critical thinking, natural resources, pollution, sustainability
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