From the category archives:

sustainability

Lard Is Good … Seriously

February 6, 2009

Here is a lovely article by The Green Fooder James Temple (thanks to  The Green Fooder in Colorado for pointing me to the article), extolling the virtues and busting misperceptions of lard.
Few food terms have become as loaded as lard, weighed down by the connotation of excess and enlisted as a prefix in the harshest obesity put-downs. But [...]

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San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders Stands Up For Marriage Equality

November 2, 2008

As pointed out by a friend:
This is a truly amazing, heartfelt public statement. This guy was clearly struggling with some deeply conflicting emotions in making the decision he made. 
I recommend that anyone who’s still feeling that politics has degenerated into a series of cold, calculated power moves and perpetual campaigning (this can’t be a good [...]

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Traditional Recession Tactics Are Doomed To Fail … Management Can Be a Tool of Holistic Design

October 22, 2008

Corporations who play this game of economic musical chairs are in for a rude awakening – because the music just stopped. 
This, a pithy line from Umair Haque’s take on the world financial crisis happening right now, sums it up. To put a finer point on it, he says this:
the macro crisis isn’t really a financial [...]

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What’s the Walk Score in Your Neighborhood?

September 28, 2008

See how walkable your neighborhood is with Walk Score.

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Shipping Costs Start to Crimp Globalization, NYT

August 8, 2008

As the price of gas creeps up, people and business are considering increasingly sustainable practices … not because it feels good, but because it relieves economic pains. Six of one, half dozen of the other; either way, I’m happy to see people look domestically and locally for their sourcing, their buying, and so forth.
The New [...]

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Is Barack Obama’s “inflated tire” like “Jimmy Carter’s sweater?” Not even close.

August 7, 2008

John McCain tried to make light of Barack Obama’s suggestion that to save money on gas we should inflate our tires. His mockery reminded me of the mocking of Jimmy Carter’s sweater. Ah, but…
After mocking Obama, McCain says inflate your tires on Anderson Cooper 360º
And I hear tell that the amount of savings in gas that would [...]

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