Reduce, Recycle, Reuse and Electronics

Computers, IPods, CDs, phones – these gadgets make our lives easier (and more annoying if you have to spend hours on the phone with tech support).  In some ways, these gadgets also help us to live more green, through reducing our need for paper, maximizing efficiency in manufacturing and HR, etc.  In other ways, our [...]

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Helping Africa: Hybrid rather than Genetically Modified Seeds

A friend passed along an interesting article that unfortunately is not available for free sharing entitled “Agriculture’s Last Frontier: African Farmers, US Companies Try to Create Another Breadbasket with Hybrids” by Roger Thurow from the Wall Street Journal.  As I’m sure all of you know, agriculture in Africa has been largely hard-hit due to political [...]

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Children and the Benefits of the Outdoors

I wanted to bring people’s attention to an organization I recently have heard about, Children and Nature Network (C&NN).  I got a chance to hear and speak to one of its founders and most public faces, author Richard Louv, at an event promoting his newest book, which was sponsored by Michael Smerconish of CBS radio, [...]

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