Ecuador’s “Historic Victory” Gives Explicit Rights to Nature
Ecuador’s new constitution gives explicit rights to Nature.
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Consumer downsizing
Today was an exercise in life simplification. The routine equaled any other saturday spent grounded in the city; slept in late… struggled through a midday capoeira workout… enduring the dreary ride back home across the city… and so it continued, but with one subtle difference. Today I began what is probably considered [...]
Paradise lost
did you know that the rate of rainforest loss throughout the globe is approximately equal to two football fields per second?
triumph of evil
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
— Haile Selassie I: Jah, Ras Tafari
american waste
Some kinds of waste really are disgusting. SUVs, for example, would arguably be gross even if they ran on a fuel which would never run out and generated no pollution. SUVs are gross because they’re the solution to a gross problem. (How to make minivans look more masculine.)
— Paul Graham
eradicate poverty
today i became inspired after reading about the Millennium Goals set in place by the UN to be achieved by 2015. The engineer in me decided to dig in a bit deeper and see just what kind of statistics are being used to back up these goals where i found some really interesting information. [...]
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