WorldChanging: Californians are Climate Trendsetters
It makes you wonder what actions the rest of the country would get behind if Cali-style forward-thinking was coming as loud and as clear from more leaders on the national stage.
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http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008155.html
It makes you wonder what actions the rest of the country would get behind if Cali-style forward-thinking was coming as loud and as clear from more leaders on the national stage.
2008, altruistic, article, bright, californian, innovative, modern, optimistic, prosperous, stable, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008155.html
SOLAR TODAY - Home
It doesn’t do much good to preach about community. All we can do is try to create the local economic institutions that draw us back together. Things like farmers’ markets. Or like sha...
2008, article, californian, centralized, communitarian, connected, distributed, german, gregarious, happy, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.solartoday.org/2008/may_june08/getting_connected.htm
It doesn’t do much good to preach about community. All we can do is try to create the local economic institutions that draw us back together. Things like farmers’ markets. Or like sha...
2008, article, californian, centralized, communitarian, connected, distributed, german, gregarious, happy, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.solartoday.org/2008/may_june08/getting_connected.htm
WorldChanging: Imagine What Comes After Green
Saving the biosphere and spreading sustainable prosperity is going to take a lot more than doing things in a more environmentally-conscious manner; it's going to demand we remake much of ...
2008, article, close, compact, creative, enjoyable, frantic, green, gregarious, hectic, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008207.html
Saving the biosphere and spreading sustainable prosperity is going to take a lot more than doing things in a more environmentally-conscious manner; it's going to demand we remake much of ...
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http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008207.html
Happiness Rankings by Country « The Situationist
Professor White concludes that happiness is about being healthy, wealthy and wise. [...] He also finds that countries of low population and high social cohesion tend to be happier.
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http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/happiness-rankings-by-country
Professor White concludes that happiness is about being healthy, wealthy and wise. [...] He also finds that countries of low population and high social cohesion tend to be happier.
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http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/happiness-rankings-by-country
social capital: civic community and education
Interaction enables people to build communities, to commit themselves to each other, and to knit the social fabric.
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http://www.infed.org/biblio/social_capital.htm
Interaction enables people to build communities, to commit themselves to each other, and to knit the social fabric.
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http://www.infed.org/biblio/social_capital.htm
Counterpoint: Dangers of Focusing Solely on Climate Change
Tackling climate change is vital. But to see everything through the lens of short-term CO2 reductions, letting our obsession with carbon blind us to the bigger picture, is to court catast...
2008, article, complex, destructive, ecological, global, green, prosperous, responsible, steffen, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/magazine/16-06/sb_carbon
Tackling climate change is vital. But to see everything through the lens of short-term CO2 reductions, letting our obsession with carbon blind us to the bigger picture, is to court catast...
2008, article, complex, destructive, ecological, global, green, prosperous, responsible, steffen, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/magazine/16-06/sb_carbon