Posts Tagged ‘ environment ’

How Do We Get There From Here

How Do We Get There From Here

February 8, 2012

As the sun disappears behind the concrete horizon, I look across the 10 lanes of highway that are currently all filled with cars moving extremely slowly. Everyone in their own vehicle on their way back from work heading home, everyone hoping this traffic will clear up, just as they...

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Our Gadgets, Our Planet

Our Gadgets, Our Planet

May 9, 2011

  This week I will meet up with David Kousemaker of TechTravels to interview him about his work on the issue of where our old gadgets end up. More specifically we will delve into a topic that the mainstream world only occasionally alludes to when they mention how "somewhere in...

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Radioactive Lessons Not Learned

Radioactive Lessons Not Learned

April 14, 2011

One of the greatest speeches I ever attended that to this day has an immense impact on how I look at the world, was given by Dr. Helen Caldicott at William Paterson University of New Jersey.  It was the late 1990's, I was in the middle of my college...

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ctrp359 Fiji Water vs Fiji Government

ctrp359 Fiji Water vs Fiji Government

December 6, 2010

Just over a year ago Anna Lenzer's exposé on Fiji Water rocked the carefully crafted eco-friendly image the bottled water company once had.  From the political, to the environmental, to human rights issues, the piece featured in Mother Jones Magazine showed that Fiji Water was not the company it...

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ctrp338 The Story of the Living Planet Fund

ctrp338 The Story of the Living Planet Fund

May 28, 2010

What happens when a someone living in the big money banking sector one day quits it all and tries out the world of environmental activism and conservation? Chiew Y. Chong did just that over 18 years ago when he joined the WWF. As we strolled through the beautiful gardens...

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