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Green Gap Is Bigger Than Ever

Apr 21, 2011

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Marketing Daily: Green Gap Is Bigger Than Ever … But as thousands of companies try to link their marketing messages to Earth Day, scheduled this year for April 22, a new study from OgilvyEarth finds that the vast majority are not having any impact on consumer behavior. While 82% of Americans have "good green intentions,"…

What Do We Really Mean by Environmentalism?

Aug 5, 2010

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mwkruse

in Christian Life, Environment, Theology

Christianity Today recently published an editorial about creation care. Noting a biblical warrant for the exercise of creation care, they encourage readers to embrace environmental stewardship as part of their Christian witness. They decry those who minimize our concern for creation. This leads me to some interesting questions I've wanted to post on this blog…

Use Energy, Get Rich and Save the Planet

Apr 21, 2009

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mwkruse

in Economics, Environment, Public Policy, Science

New York Times: Use Energy, Get Rich and Save the Planet … Those projections make it easy to assume that affluence and technology inflict more harm on the environment. But while pollution can increase when a country starts industrializing, as people get wealthier they can afford cleaner water and air. They start using sources of…

MEC: Destroying the Environment?

Mar 27, 2008

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mwkruse

in Economics, Environment, Series: Must Everything Change?, Sociology, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

From reading Everything Must Change, I think we have two options. An ascetic no economic growth world where we "live within limits" and protect the environment. An economically robust world that collapses from exhausting resources and destroys the ecosystem. Is there a third option? Is there an option that leads to robust economic development, human…

Environment

Feb 20, 2008

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mwkruse

in Economics, Environment, Series: Social Indicators 2007, Technology (Energy)

SOCIAL INDICATORS 2007 There is a long history of environmentalism in American life. Yellowstone National Park was created in 1872. The Audubon Society, formed in 1905, was one of the earliest environmental groups. President Teddy Roosevelt (1901-1909) was probably the first "environmental president" with his conservationist policies. More modern environmental groups can be traced to…

It’s Not Easy Pleasing Greens: Do environmentalists oppose pollution or capitalism?

Jun 8, 2007

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mwkruse

in Capitalism and Markets, Environment, Politics, Public Policy

Wall Street Journal: It's Not Easy Pleasing Greens: Do environmentalists oppose pollution or capitalism? The shareholder vote failed anyway, but the episode was revealing. As more big-business money goes to supporting research on alternative fuels, campus eco-warriors are having to rethink their agenda. The recent success of the environmental movement in selling the danger of…

An Early Environmentalist, Embracing New ‘Heresies’

Feb 28, 2007

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mwkruse

in Environment, Technology (Biotech & Health), Technology (Energy), Technology (Food & Water), Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

New York Times: An Early Environmentalist, Embracing New 'Heresies' (HT: Evangelical Environmentalist) This is a fascinating article about Stewart Brand's view of the near future. Brand was (among other things) the creator of the Whole Earth Catalog and co-founder of the WELL (Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link), which I had some dealings with in the early…

The Green Old Party

Sep 22, 2006

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mwkruse

in Environment

From the Acton PowerBlog: The Green Old Party The old saws that ecology must come at a price (jobs, taxes, etc) aren’t overcome by ignoring them, but rather by confronting them with green business models and reasonable legislation that balance environmental, human and economic needs. If the GOP wants to survive in the 21st century,…

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