Songs of Hope, Despair, Retribution, or Inspiration
People identify with music. We identify with each other through music. We identify what's important in the world out there with music. It's my favorite art form.You probably have those songs, bands,...
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Getting from Here to There
Do you ever feel like sustainability-minded folks are just singing the Talking Heads song, "Road to Nowhere"? I do. Derrick Jensen maybe says it best in an article at Orion: "The most common words I...
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"If there's a new way..."
Yesterday, Megadeth founder Dave Mustaine more or less endorsed Rick Santorum for president (pic at right courtesy of The Atlantic Wire). As of late, he's said he hasn't "endorsed him" but the effect...
View ArticleA Class to Change Life and Living
A General Education Science Course That Just Might Change Your Life!If you are thinking that a Gen-Ed Natural Science Course on the Environment will be boring and irrelevant to your life and your...
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Playing in Penn's Woods with a Purple Lizard
I grew up playing in the woods. Behind my house there was a patch of woods where we played hide and seek. Down the lane to the Schwab's house my friends and I climbed trees and had our "monkey club."...
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E.O. Wilson Coming to Penn State
I am a huge E.O. Wilson fan. His work on evolution, ecology, and love for life - what he calls "biophilia - has had an enormous impact on me personally and professionally. He is, to my mind, one of the...
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Eco Cars?
The United States is the home of the automobile. Since Henry Ford pushed the car onto the streets and we were changed from a walking, horse riding, and bicycling people, American life is different from...
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Conservation and Sustainability from the Legislature: Conversation with Sen....
Pennsylvania has a complicated history regarding natural resource use. On the one hand, we have these incredible state park systems, forests, and game lands. But then we have the legacies of timbering,...
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Community and Environmental Rights
A lot of people don't think of "the environment" has being owed rights. "What? Give trees rights?" You might think it's something to scoff at but there's a long tradition of recognizing nature as being...
View ArticlePennEnvironment & Commonwealth Foundation Talk Fracking on NBC
If you are interested in the so-called medical gag order, watch from about 9:45 on.
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PSU Earth Day: Maathai Memorial & Sustainability Site Tours
On Friday, April 20, the Penn State Center for Sustainability will host a day of free activities at the University's 9-Acre Sustainability Experience Center, as part of Penn State's Earth Week...
View ArticleAre Centre Region's Conscientious Omnivores Getting a Slaughterhouse They Want?
The locavore movement keeps growing. In the last few years, the small local farmer has reemerged as friend, hero, and businessman...actually it's more often a businesswoman. The smaller local farmer...
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In Praise of Wilderness
Rather than an extended blog about wilderness for Earth Day and Earth Week, I'd rather share the words on nature and the wild by people far more eloquent than I am and share some pictures of our...
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Mann Scores a Goal with Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars
In his new book, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars, Dr. Michael E. Mann (pic at left from Scientific American) recounts a moment on the Great Wall of China just months before his daughter was born....
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How Should Bob Stop the Train from Hitting that Child and Dog?
Let’s start with a little thought experiment from Peter Singer’s “Singer Solution to World Poverty.”Bob is close to retirement. He has invested most of his savings in a very rare and valuable old car,...
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"Changing the Moral Climate on Climate Change": Update 4.29.2012
Universities need to take clear stands for meaningful action on climate change.Climate change is real. It is affecting the lives of people across the globe and it presents all of us – especially the...
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Higher Education in a Warming World
Last night about 200 people came to Thomas building to hear and see "Changing the Moral Climate on Climate Change." The Centre Daily Times reports today:Penn State professors Michael Mann, Donald...
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