Archive for the ‘ Environment ’ Category

Response to Emily on Global Warming

I meant to write this post a loooong time ago, but I never got around to it. Emily wrote an opinion about global warming that I totally disagree with and is clearly just from lack of research on the topic. Actually, when I first read it …it was like I was reading a slightly edited [ READ MORE ]

Would you trade your house for more happiness?

Yesterday for one of my classes we read a paper (Lawn, P. 2001. “Scale, prices, and biophysical assessments” Ecological Economics 38, 369–382) that said you can have sustainable development (whatever that means, now) while maintaining the same level of happiness in the current society. It makes me wonder if people would be happier if they [ READ MORE ]

Alphabet Climate Change

A - Z on the effects of climate change… A East Antarctica, long stable, is now losing ice. B Bolivia needs $1 billion over the next seven years to build reservoirs, as theglaciers that hold the nation’s water supply are shrinking rapidly. C Leatherback sea turtles that spawn on the beaches of Costa Rica are threatened with extinction by warmer temperatures and rising seas. D Denmark joined [ READ MORE ]

The Nano Suuuuucks

I wrote this for a class, if I would have written it for just my blog it wouldn’t be in such …”nice” language…but i was going to write about it aaaaaanyway…: If you drive a car or even have to take a bus in any sort of major city you know that traffic is a terrible [ READ MORE ]

My interview with “the coast”

1. Without a single higher authority on how we should behave, how do we determine how our relationships with the non-human world should look? I guess I should first start by saying that morality isn’t monopolized by religion - how we should behave doesn’t stem from a higher authority but rather with our natural instinct of [ READ MORE ]

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