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July 11, 2008
Posted by Peter Lehner
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- chrisjordan, consumption, foodprices, gasprices, malthus, trash, waste
Thomas Malthus has suddenly become popular again. While Americans are concerned about fuel prices, much of the rest of the world is concerned about food prices. In countries like Egypt and Bangladesh, and in regions of Africa, riots have...
June 30, 2008
Posted by Peter Lehner
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- beaches, cleanwateract, congress, epa, sewage, simplesteps, waterpollution, waterquality
We need a lot more environmental information to begin to address the lack of public understanding of environmental harms.This may seem obvious, but it isn’t. At a meeting a few years ago, I was shocked to find the head of...
June 26, 2008
Posted by Peter Lehner
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- brookingsinstitution, gasprices, globalwarming, smartgrowth, solvingglobalwarming, transportation
In response to a recent post of mine, a commenter said, “American's can go back to the ‘stone age’ and walk to work and it wouldn't make any difference to the WORLD oil market.” I appreciate your comment, Dan, but...
June 12, 2008
Posted by Peter Lehner in Living Sustainably
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- clearwatersloop, earthshare, eowilson, hudsonriver, livinggreen, manhattan
A few nights ago, I gave a talk aboard the Clearwater sloop – a 106-foot wooden sailing sloop designed after 18th and 19th century Dutch sailing sloops – at an event sponsored by Earth Share. As we sailed around the...