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Answer to Paper or Plastic? is Complicated

 

Here is a comprehensive analysis of the inputs and consequences involved with the seemingly simple choice of how to carry your items home from the shop.  Maybe this is why I like to keep used boxes around for all sorts of things.  Until we all shop for fewer items we had better keep those reusable bags in our trunks…

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http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in-america-chart-graph

 

Here is a link to a Mother Jones article about growing inequality in America.  I enjoy reflecting on a good visual of complex data.  See what you think.  Does growing inequality threaten peace around the world?

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in-america-chart-graph

 

Here is a link to a Mother Jones article about growing inequality in America.  I enjoy reflecting on a good visual of complex data.  See what you think.  Does growing inequality threaten peace around the world?

http://www.grist.org/article/series/skeptics/



Here is a link to the Grist.org series on how to talk to a climate skeptic.

It is a very comprehensive series of posts that cover the full range of objections people have made for not taking action on climate change. Here again is another great example of the power of the internet to bring important information to a wide audience with very little effort needed to research… Continue

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/10/13-2

Here is a great video from the TED series I found on another of my favorite news and commentary web sites - commondreams.org.

http://www.grist.org/article/2010-10-12-anatomy-of-a-senate-climate-bill-death/



Here is a link from one of my favorite web sites - grist.org. It is where I go for the latest in commentary and analysis about what needs to happen to realize more positive results from our political, economic and environmental policies.



This link takes you to a post dealing with the realities of shaping… Continue

On September 11 a Bradenton-Sarasota interfaith group will hold a solidarity service to express ecumenical support for our Muslim brothers and sisters, at the First Presbyterian Church in Sarasota. Cosponsors include Friends, Mennonites, Muslims, Jews, Catholics, and many Protestant congregations. We will express our unified disgust at the burning of the Qu'ran by the Dove Church in Gainesville, sorrow that so many American "leaders" have opposed the building of the Muslim center in New York… Continue