When environmental activists don't talk about food consumption, but leaflet people about low-flow shower heads that save 5 gallons of water per person per day, they are missing the big picture and are doing the public a great disservice. Food is the big elephant in...

30 March, 2013 /

"It is scientific to be saying what is more likely and what is less likely, not proving anything right." - Richard Feynman.

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09 February, 2013 /

“Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.” - Theodore Adorno.

"Who eats 11-year old oxen? These people are nuts," said the Climate Scientist. And I replied, "That is true, we only eat babies."

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23 December, 2012 /

What happens when your foot gets stuck in a hole and you injure your leg accidentally?

If you are Lou, you will be scheduled for slaughter along with your healthy brother, Bill, to be processed into hamburgers.

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21 November, 2012 /

Green Mountain College (GMC) in Poultney, VT, conducts a Masters program in Sustainable Food Systems, whose central premise appears to be that 19th century animal farming methodologies and 21st century human consumption patterns lead to a sustainable world.

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14 November, 2012 /

They were wearing cowboy hats and leather boots and they stared at the Save Bill and Lou poster on the side of our Prius. We had just crossed into West Texas on Insterstate 10 and had stopped for a bite of lunch.

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10 November, 2012 /

Wouldn't it be amazing if the Dalai Lama follows up his words with this concrete action and urges his Facebook friends to go Vegan? With signatories of the Durban Addendum such as Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Ela Gandhi (the granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi), Bishop Geoff Davies,...

15 September, 2012 /

Happy Cows and Pink Elephants are on my mind. After last month's encounter with Al Gore and the Pink Elephant of animal agriculture that he's largely ignoring in his climate change slide show, I've been bombarded with emailed reverberations from the...

11 September, 2012 /

A dear colleague observed recently that I seem to have lost faith in the power of governmental policies and markets to solve climate change. Having attended the UN COP-17 meeting in Durban, South Africa last year and watched the sausage making in the international policy...

06 September, 2012 /

I wish Al Gore well in his dance. As far as I am concerned, he is part of the Dancer who is sending me messages with respect to my own blinders. And I better pay attention and listen.

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24 August, 2012 /

Mr. Gore's slide show itself has devolved into an "I'm right and you're wrong" style diatribe which is unlikely to win the hearts and minds of the intended audience. And therein lies the true tragedy of the training event, that almost 1000 people flew in...

23 August, 2012 /

At the root of Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project, there’s a gaping hole where half of the solution has gone missing and isn’t being talked about. In that hole, a very conspicuous pink elephant is flapping her ears.

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21 August, 2012 /

At their core, all religions are based on the foundation of compassion. Even secular humanism, which admits to no God, is based on compassion. That is a powerful basis for unity, not division.

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08 August, 2012 /

There are two kinds of denial that have become part of our psychological response: 1) the denial that it is even happening, which is rapidly becoming impossible to sustain given the evidence, and 2) the denial that our personal consumption patterns need to change in...

25 July, 2012 /

Carbon Tax and Dividend is like Gandhi agitating for an Oppression tax to be levied on white train travelers, to be collected and redistributed equally to all white train travelers in the form of dividends, so that they have an economic incentive to reduce their...

15 June, 2012 /

Paul is right. The Earth is Full and we better understand that our adolescent growth spurt is over and that we need to adjust to an age of limited growth with an ever increasing maturity. 

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12 June, 2012 /

When climate scientists continue to consume animal foods, while talking about catastrophic weather events in the coming decades if we don't make policy changes, I personally find it difficult to take them seriously.

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08 April, 2012 /

The human impact on the carbon cycle is much bigger than we thought. But on the flip side, this also means that the carbon sinks of the natural world are much more powerful than we thought.

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07 March, 2012 /