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Posted on 03.13.07 by Emily
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Plastic sucks… especially when it makes you fat! But it’s interesting, and ubiquitous, so worth checking out this history of polymers in consumer goods.
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Compelling essay by Alex Steffen at Worldchanging:
To think that we can “solve” climate change without addressing poverty, human rights, democratization, conflict, epidemic disease, biodiversity loss, water scarcity, food issues and the like is to suffer from carbon blindness. Any climate plan which does not have sustainable prosperity as its ultimate goal will fail, just as surely as any effort to address these other challenges which ignores climate change will fail.
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It’s so hard to tell when people with headphones/earpieces are available for communication. What a wonderful manifestation of attention.
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When strangers in strange lands impress you with unexpected care and generosity, you start to wonder about your own impact as a traveler: how much your dollars benefit local businesses, what your visit does to the environment and how your behavior — your ability to listen, as well as to speak — affects the world’s impression of who you are. Ethical travel is the natural outgrowth of these questions.
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Cool tool allows you to create free live talk shows via phone/web with simultaneous text chat that then become podcasts.
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