All the following stories appeared recently on the Environmental News Network: Free Goods At Throwplace.com Help Consumers in Tough Times Eco-friendly Sri Lankan Factories U.S. Renewable Energy Growth Accelerates Hawaii Recycles Record 72 Percent of Beverage Containers Algae: Biofuel Of The Future? Yellow cabs go green faster in NYC
Archive for August, 2008
Good Environmental News
Posted in Articles & Essays, Web Sites, tagged environment, good news on August 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Your Body Is Smarter Than You Imagine
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged andrew weil, healing, health on August 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rob says: Writing in Whole Earth, Dr. Andrew Weil says, “Any level of biological organization that we examine, from DNA up to the most complex body systems, shows the capacity for self-diagnosis, for removal of damaged structure, and for regeneration of new structure.” I urge you to keep that idea close to the front of your mind, dear readers. [...]
Your Body Is Smarter Than You Imagine, Part Two
Posted in Books, tagged disease, health, james forleo on August 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Health Is Simple, Disease Is Complicated: A Systems Approach to Vibrant Health by James Forleo Dr. James Forleo proposes a return to the body as the site of self-healing. The problem, he says, is that we don’t understand the language of signs and symptoms it uses to communicate its healing messages. Health Is Simple helps readers decipher that [...]
Hero of the Planet! Person of the Year! Genius of the Tribe!
Posted in Videos, tagged bioneers, design, engineering, environment, william mcdonough on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
William McDonough Listen to his speech at Bioneers:
Remaking the Way We Make Things
Posted in Books, tagged environment, manufacturing, michael braungart, recycling, william mcdonough on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, by William McDonough and Michael Braungart Paper or plastic? Neither, say William McDonough and Michael Braungart. Why settle for the least harmful alternative when we could have something that is better — say, edible grocery bags! In Cradle to Cradle, the authors present a manifesto calling for [...]
Some Prophets Aren’t Doom and Gloomers, They’re Zoom and Bloomers
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged future, john tierney, ray kurzweil on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Law of Accelerating Returns
The Science of Happiness
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged happiness, karen salmansohn on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“How To Win the Metaphorical Happiness Lottery” by Karen Salmansohn
The Hidden Reality Is Beautiful and Interesting
Posted in Videos, tagged bill moyers, joseph campbell, myth on August 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“The Power of Myth” series with Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell The Message of the Myth, part 1 Sacrifice and Bliss, part 1 The First Storytellers, part 1 Love and the Godess, part 1
Pronoia Requires Fierce Discipline
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged discipline, henri j.m. nouwen, joy on August 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Return of the Prodigal Son by Henri J. M. Nouwen I am not accustomed to rejoicing in things that are small, hidden, and scarcely noticed by the people around me. I am generally ready and prepared to receive bad news, to read about wars, violence, and crimes, and to witness conflict and disarray. I always [...]
Amazing People Are Working Behind the Scenes to Help Us All
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged biomimicry, mit, plants, solar power on August 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Major discovery from MIT primed to unleash solar revolution: Scientists mimic essence of plants’ energy storage system In a revolutionary leap that could transform solar power from a marginal, boutique alternative into a mainstream energy source, MIT researchers have overcome a major barrier to large-scale solar power: storing energy for use when the sun doesn’t [...]
Imperfectly Perfect Pronoiac Solutions
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged food, nigeria, plumpynut, starvation on August 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Life Saver Called “Plumpynut” Not as many Nigerian kids are starving
Pronoia + Controversy = Protoversy
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged controversy, ideas, pronoia on August 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Instead of a controversy, start a protoversy. “The world’s a big enough place for a diverse ecology of successes.”
