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Dave Pollard's environmental philosophy, creative works, business papers and essays.
In search of a better way to live and make a living, and a better understanding of how the world really works.
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How to Save the World
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BLOG The Environmentalist's Dilemma: No Point in ArguingThe last two days in Ithaca at the (extraordinarily well organized -- thanks Sarah & Emily!) Net Impact seminar were an eye-opener for me. On the one hand, I really got the sense that the largely-young crowd of 2400 attendees was pretty naive about how much of an impact their actions will and can have on the social and environmental behav...
11-16
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How to Save the World
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BLOG Links and Tweets of the Week: November 14, 2009 Cartoon by David Sipress in The New YorkerPREPARING FOR CIVILIZATION'S COLLAPSE:How the Rich Can Stop Hurting the Poor: Sharon Astyk adds her own recommendations to the Transition Initiative's recommendations, in an interview with Vandana Shiva, to help reduce the exploitation of struggling nations:Do not buy or eat any industrial meat – p...
11-15
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How to Save the World
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BLOG Comments on November 4, 2009 post "Do We Really Want to Know?" not yet postedBecause Radio Userland is capping comments at 50 per article, and because I wanted to capture these comments for posterity anyway, and because some people wanted to post more comments, I'm reposting my article from November 4, 2009, with the first 50 comments embedded at the end of the article, so there should be roo...
11-11
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How to Save the World
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BLOG Hacking the Tar Sands One of the projects I'm proposing to undertake over the next few months is facilitating the organization of opponents to the Alberta Tar Sands and holding Open Space brainstorming sessions to identify creative, clever ways to disrupt and ultimately close down the Tar Sands without anyone getting hurt or arrested. This will take a lot of ingenuity, and I think I can contr...
11-11
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How to Save the World
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BLOG Links and Tweets of the Week -- November 7, 2009 What's wrong with this picture? The Standard & Poor's 500 Public US Companies' P/E ratio has historically traded at around 17, which assumes healthy growth in profits for big corporations indefinitely into the future. What, then, does a P/E ratio of 150 mean? It means that trillions of dollars of taxpayer money (which future generations wil...
11-08
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