Tag: environment
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October 21, 2006 02:35 PM EDT --
Ok Just want to know your feelings on this.
A lady is dyeing she has only a few hours to live.
I walk in her room as her care-giver but she thinks i'm her son. Do I tell her no I'm not johnny? . . .
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March 03, 2008 12:28 AM EST --
Just yesterday, I watched a news report on CNN that showed inordinately high snow banks in Maine. According to residents, they haven't seen this much snow in the last 15 years. In Chicago, . . .
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December 21, 2006 10:57 AM EST --
Those who refuse to accept the scientific consensus on global warming often come to their position because they want to "protect business." They worry that measures taken to curb greenhouse . . .
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March 16, 2007 12:45 PM EDT --
“Absolute" truth is an understanding I would think people might apply, and properly so, to the sanctity of life and the obligation of everyone to be “pro-life”. Commonsense would . . .
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September 22, 2006 01:02 PM EDT --
As was noted yesterday in some other Gather articles, Richard Branson, the chairman of Virgin Group, pledged an estimated $3 billion (all profits from his transportation businesses over the next 10 years) . . .
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April 11, 2007 12:50 PM EDT --
Margaret Mead said "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, devoted citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that has.”
Here is the course these citizens have . . .
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December 20, 2007 09:55 AM EST --
All of us have heard about the success of Brazil in developing an ethanol economy based on sugar cane. This year about 85% of the cars manufactured in Brazil will be flex-fuel . . .
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August 31, 2006 03:03 AM EDT --
The hyped rationalism of the Enlightenment is misplaced as is the hyped fideism of imperial theology. Faith and reason - religion and science - cannot arbitrarily be disconnected from . . .
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October 31, 2006 04:48 AM EST --
The word "love" is flippantly bandied about. Love is publicly trashed and desecrated. But what does love really mean? Surely a life-style . . .
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January 03, 2007 11:04 AM EST --
If the many crises of our time can be conflated into a single phrase it is the phrase “crisis of conscience”. Because of universal ecological/environmental degradations, the global . . .
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April 03, 2007 10:50 PM EDT --
I just received an e-mail from gather about their Starbucks contest for a trip to Costa Rica. They want me to write an essay about how I would positively affect environmental change in my community. Has . . .
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September 04, 2006 02:27 PM EDT --
A true man among humans Steve Irwin
Steve a man with passion a man with true spirit. He was a man who devoted his life to animals and to conservation he was all the . . .
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April 16, 2008 10:51 AM EDT --
The demand, and need, for solar power is growing as we try to wean ourselves away from fossil fuels. The technology is rapidly improving and the cost per watt is decreasing as the manufacturing . . .
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October 07, 2006 02:51 PM EDT --
Deep down, evolution and devolution are wave/particle dance, the rhythmic process of creation unfolding—sometimes pretty and sometimes…not so pretty—but always awesome. . . .
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September 14, 2006 01:55 PM EDT --
WHAT ARE WE TEACHING OUR YOUNG?
I can't help it. I see the young man in that TV ad jogging through the neighborhood. I listen as he shares his thoughts with us. It's . . .
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April 05, 2007 05:02 PM EDT --
Do you have questions on climate change -- how to decrease your impact, what can we expect, is it for real?! OneWorld has brought together experts to help answer your questions. Click Comment below before . . .
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October 04, 2006 02:03 PM EDT --
Why No Push To Remove Bush?
Lately, we see more and more cracks in the moralistic, patriotic façade of the policy makers. We also see people in the media one by one start to realize . . .
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October 18, 2007 12:01 PM EDT --
The developmental economic model of Western societies is based on the continued growth of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and ascendancy up the corporate ladder. This model is now exposed to be ecologically . . .
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September 02, 2007 07:38 AM EDT --
Walter Brueggemann has made the connection of ecological wasting (sin against the God/ Land/ Human Covenant) and the exploitation of women:
“…Adam, that is, mankind, has a partner and mate, . . .
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