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Curricular innovation has been a hot topic on the Green Schools List (email "subscribe grnsch-l" to listserv@listserv.brown.edu) the past week or two. And no wonder -- getting colleges and ...

... be sure to check your under-seat cushion, which can be used as a flotation device in the entirely likely event of a water landing. All right, not all than entirely likely, at least not this ...

Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman has two recent NYT op-ed pieces, It's Easy Being Green and Cassandras of Climate. Krugman points out that the reason we (the whole world, but most clearly the ...

I've pretty much given up on the mega-corporate media as sources of objective information with one exception -- they do report objectively on the subjective. They trumpet conventional attitudes and ...

A new, significant and potentially very useful report makes reference to an aquarium full of hamsters connected to rudimentary motors producing a lot of frantic running, a lot of sweat and heat but ...

Listening to NPR this morning, I heard a representative of the Bipartisan Policy Center (who? should I trust anyone whose first name claims to be "bipartisan"? is this like some ...

When you've got a personality like mine, you get used to being alone. A lot. (Actually, it's kind of peaceful, once you get used to it.) A recent iteration of solitude came as a result of charter ...

Okay, maybe it's just me. (Mrs. R. tells me it often is.) But a recent item I received from Environmental Leader (a business-focused environmental newsletter) kind of rubbed me the wrong way. Not ...

So, today's the day after P-Day. As in "Plan Day." As in "Climate Action Plan due date." For charter signatories of the Presidents Climate Commitment, yesterday was the ...

This morning, I awoke to the voice of Steven Chu on NPR. I'll want to go back and listen to the piece again this evening -- any pronouncement to the media (national media, particularly) by any ...