In the cover story from last week’s New York Times Magazine, Paul Greenberg writes about the end of Bluefin Tuna (Tuna’s End, 6/21/10). It’s not a new story, this one about the pace of our consumption overtaking the reproductive capacities of some organism with the unfortunate genetic gift of tasting good. (For other examples of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘sustainability’
Bigfin Tuna and The Lorax
Posted in Education / Science, food, tagged biodiverstiy, extinction, fish, sustainability on June 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“How to Green Your Parents”
Posted in Education / Science, tagged conservation, Earth Day, sustainability on April 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Indoctrination! Propaganda! cry the skeptics in the Comments section! How about Responsibility, Conservation, and Sustainability? An interesting read from last week’s Opinionator section of the Times; Allison Arieff on “How to Green Your Parents.”
Go Paperless for Earth Day
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged education, paperless, sustainability on March 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
An interesting idea from the TeachPaperless Blog, one that’s fairly easy to implement, and will be sure to spur some good conversations about paper use, waste, recycling, and the traditional role of paper in schools. To celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day, this group of teachers is asking if you’d be willing to go [...]
No Impact Man
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged documentary, education, environmental awareness, no impact man, sustainability on September 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The documentary “No Impact Man” opened on Friday in NY and LA. A Huffington Post article from the other day explains a little of the back story, and it’s where I first heard of the film. The movie presents Colin Beavan’s experiment to live with as little environmental impact as possible for a year, in [...]
Re: Food Inc.
Posted in food, tagged agriculture, food, Food Inc, Michael Pollan, movies, sustainability on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There has been a lot written about Robert Kenner’s documentary Food Inc. already. Not surprisingly, the food blogs were abuzz before it even came out. It covers topics that I’ve been reading a lot about over the past two years: topics in books by Michael Pollan, Marion Nestle, Eric Schlosser, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, et al. Sustainability [...]
Sustainable Coffee
Posted in food, tagged coffee, fair trade, sustainability on July 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I buy coffee from all over. It’s one of those things, along with wine and spices, that you can exempt yourself from feeling bad about not buying local. Well, I don’t feel bad. Not too much coffee grown in Connecticut. So since it’s from elsewhere, I’m always happy to try a new roaster. I like [...]
