There are so many new and exciting ways of defining and understanding leadership that are emerging, or perhaps just becoming more well known. I believe our understanding of leadership now and in the future will play a key role in determining the future state of the planet. The best part about this is that once [...]
Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category
The Hokey Pokey
Posted in Environment, Personal, Political, tagged desires, Love, Money, self-awareness on September 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Continuing on the quest to find not money, but the things that money can bring… As I’ve written before, I do not believe that our environmental problems will be solved to the degree necessary simply by changing environmental policy, starting the right social programs, or electing the right politicians. This is because such changes would [...]
Where the Personal Meets the Environmental
Posted in Environment, Personal, Political, tagged Acceptance, Action, Change, Environment, Love, Money, Personal, political, Time, Visioning on September 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve changed my tagline, and I’m re-vamping my blog. I would still like this blog to “to trigger thought, and challenge ideas about current environmental issues and their solutions”, but I want to shift the focus to “where the personal meets the environmental”. Change has to start from within. The personal is the spiritual is [...]
When Oil Meets Water
Posted in Environment, Oil, tagged BP oil spill, British Columbia, business as usual, deep sea drilling, Enbridge pipeline, oil tankers, unconventional oil, Vancouver on January 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Refuse to trade your environment and your health for jobs in the oil industry; demand other jobs from your government; have faith in your community’s small businesses and entrepreneurs. “ This is the incredibly simple, wise, and hopeful advice of Tracy Kuhns and Mike Roberts, two Louisiana residents and fisheries employees who spoke at [...]
Am I a Canary in a Coal Mine?
Posted in Environment on July 15, 2010 | 4 Comments »
It’s funny, because three times now this expression has come into my conversation in the past two days. Canaries have traditionally been used in underground coal mines in order to detect coal bed methane (CBD), a deadly gas. When the canaries die, miners know that the air is not safe to breathe and so they [...]
Make Your Own Cleaning Products: A How-to Guide
Posted in Environment, tagged chemicals, cleaning products, manufactured demand on March 25, 2010 | 4 Comments »
It is not necessary to spray harmful chemicals that should not be inhaled or ingested in order to keep your house clean. It is not even necessary to buy the many natural cleaning products that now exist. Cleaning products are one of the great success stories of industry’s use of “manufactured demand” — using marketing [...]
Me, Myself, and Plastic
Posted in Environment, Plastic, tagged Change, Environment, Fertilizer, Landfill, Mindfulness, Oil, Pesticides, Plastic, Pollution, Waste on February 11, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Take a look around you for a moment and notice all the things that are made either entirely or partially out of plastic. Your pen, hairbrush, detergent, lotions, pills, cell phone, clock and computer are probably all made of plastic. The ever-popular notion of the “evil” plastic bag is really only the tip of the [...]
