Consumer Mentality
I was searching for a way to combine my background in environmental policy and sustainability with, what else but…. shopping!
Let the iPhone Save the Planet
About three years ago, I sat next to a man on a plane who was watching “Pirates of the Caribbean” on his iPod. I couldn’t imagine it being much fun, although the special effects probably looked more realistic on a viewer that defied serious scrutiny than on something like an Imax screen. Ever since then, I have noticed that Apple delivers many familiar products and services in formats that are much lower in carbon content than the ones they replace – – and might even be able to deliver an app that one day saves the entire planet from the dual impacts of climate change and an energy-inefficient economy.
A Gift from the Gulf
I’m experiencing a bit of writer’s block today, and I’ll tell you why.
Last week my colleagues, Kristina and Andria, traveled to the Gulf Coast to collect video blogs from people who have been affected first hand by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (for more about this project, please visit livespergallon.net).
Does God Want a Climate Bill?
In the same summer that something (or someone?) is punishing the eastern half of the US with record heat and all of its predictable consequences, Congress raised a white flag last week in the battle to regulate one of the primary contributors to the problem—carbon pollution.
Lives on “Hold”
Rich, poor, black, white, Lower 9th Ward, Garden District – I’ve talked with them all in the last few days and I’ve learned that they’ve all been impacted in different ways by the oil spill in the Gulf.
Hopeless and Hopedale
Day 2 was depressing. Today was the day we got the interviews we had expected to get.
Interviews with folks that are severely impacted by the spill. Interviews with folks that you have seen on TV – a charter-fishing operator named Captain John, Danny the crabber who now has to work for BP on the clean up because he has to keep food on the table — and then there was Diane, the make shift therapist for the community.
It’s Complicated
Sunday was Day One for our organization’s (Seventh Generation Advisors) Lives Per Gallon Story Project. My colleague Andria and I were dispatched to the Gulf Coast to give the victims of the BP oil spill a voice; a venue to express how they are being impacted; and a way to connect with those who want to help.
What Am I Doing Here in the Deep South?
I was sent here on assignment to reach out to the unheard voices who have been impacted by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But I’m a privileged middle-class woman from California.
Reaping the Fruits of our Labor
“Acting in ‘Star Wars’ I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn’t even know who the cantaloupes were.” — Mark Hamill
Mark Hamill—I know what you mean.
Hitachi and Schwarzenegger: Solutions for a Thirsty Planet
Hitachi’s Plant Technologies division and two cities in Japan are selling treated sewage water to an iron ore mining company in West Australia for use in industrial processes that today consume scarce drinking water.