No, not that moment of zen. This one is closer to the real meaning inherent in that phrase, which has to do with the notion that wisdom (along with compassion) is expressed in the everyday through yourself, people, and nature, if you can reach a certain state of perception. I’m not a practioner let alone [...]
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Today’s Moment of Zen
January 31st, 2012 
Justin Manger 
Posted in 2nd Green, Conservation, Japan, Justin Manger, Op-Ed, Sustainability 
Tags: Conservation, Environment, Nature 
1 Comment »Poll: What is your McDonald’s Moment?
January 30th, 2012 Eric Wilson In yesterday’s op-ed I referenced Justin’s “McDonald’s moment.” When he was 12 years-old, he wrote a letter to the company inquiring about their Styrofoam packaging. This is not to be confused with the restaurant’s ill-fated foray into social media. Yesterday’s post recounted the effect growing up in LA had on me and how I came [...]
Growing Up in LA
January 29th, 2012 Eric Wilson A few weeks ago I was talking with another transplant from Los Angeles who also became interested in environmental sustainability. She asked what it was that got me interested in the topic. I told her that I never was big on going outside – not like I am now at least. I’ve hypothesized before on [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Op-Ed, Recylcing, Sustainability, Transportation Tags: Environment, Los Angeles, Prius, Tesla 1 Comment »Obama Returns to Energy Theme in State of the Union
January 26th, 2012 2nd Green Revolution As he has done previously in talking about the state of America, President Obama had several things to say about energy in Tuesday night’s speech (transcript here). For one, due to a surge in domestic oil production, imports of foreign oil have fallen to the lowest levels in 16 years and “American oil production is the highest that [...]
Posted in Behavior, Business, Clean Technology, Economics, Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Green Economy, Justin Manger, News, President Obama, Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Transportation Tags: Alternative Energy, Clean Energy, Congress, Electricity Generation, Energy, Green Technology, Renewable Energy, Washington DC No Comments »Aquaculture: How Sustainable is Farming Fish?
January 24th, 2012 Megan Stilley I have discussed factory farms in a previous post. But did you know that factory farms go beyond the normal livestock? Factory farms are now plaguing our oceans and fresh water fish. With the rising demand for seafood and the natural populations being depleted, it only makes sense to start factory farms for fish, right? [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Sustainability Tags: Climate Change, Food, Megan Stilley, Water No Comments »Poll: Obama’s State of the Union Speech
January 23rd, 2012 Justin Manger On Tuesday, January 24th President Obama will deliver his State of the Union Address from Capitol Hill. How prominently do you think clean energy and the “green” economy will be featured in the speech? Choose from one of the options below:
Efficiency is not the Key to Sustainability
January 22nd, 2012 Eric Wilson Justin has written a few posts about the importance of getting outside; one titled “Encroachment” and the other “The Set Aside“. This post follows up, but takes the idea in a slightly different direction.I realize the title of this post may be heresy, but hear me out. The other day I was in a building [...]
Posted in Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Op-Ed, Sustainability Tags: Nature No Comments »Where the Trees Are: New Biomass Map Shows Forest Cover Across the U.S.
January 18th, 2012 Justin Manger Calling their work “possibly the highest resolution and most detailed view of forest structure and carbon storage ever assembled for any country,” the NASA Earth Observatory has released a map that includes measurements of about five million trees. With a scale of 30 meters, 4 computer pixels represents an acre of land. As the Earth Observatory states, The [...]
Posted in Conservation, Graphics, Justin Manger, News, Sustainability Tags: Biomass, Carbon Dioxide, Conservation, Environment 1 Comment »
