“Have the Best Earth Day Ever!”
Your assignment for Earth Day: Read these two books. Nothing else really matters.
Day #2 of Water Week: Green Washing
Tweet When life hands you lemons, there is often an opportunity to make lemonade. Last week, one of my daughters cleaned her room by overloading our wash machine with all the clothes that had been festering on her floor. This overload of laundry caused my 10+ year old...Book Review: The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight
Tweet A friend recommended The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight to me recently. Its one of those books filled with the bad news that makes many look away: we are running out of cheap fossil fuel, clean water and other scary stuff. The author Thom Hartmann, who has...What’s Cheap Oil Got To Do With It?
Tweet I’m not talking about the kind of cheap oil that goes into Girl Scout Cookies and other forms of industrialized junk food. Its the oil that comes out of the ground that I’m thinking about! Created tens of thousands of years ago from prehistoric...Movie: A Crude Awakening
Tweet Addictions of any kind can result in catastrophe when the supply falls short or the costs rise beyond reach before curing the addiction. Like it or not, we live the way we do thanks to cheap fossil fuels, and like it or not, we are addicted to them. That will...