Environmental Ethics

WHICH DISASTER ARE WE MOST LIKELY FACING?

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:34:11 -0400

Lots of scary talk going around about plagues, earthquakes, and environmental disasters. Which do you think is the most imminent, and what do you plan to do about it?

Redesign Earth Day

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:48:27 -0400

What are you doing for Earth Day?

Is Earth Day becoming an obsolete concept? With the environmental reforms going on in every dimension of our culture, is it still a useful date to keep in our calendar?

Was the Earth Day concept flawed in its design? When we devote a single day or month to a cause such as the environment, equal rights, etc, do we diminish the year-round importance of the issue itself?

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Fair Food

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:13:35 -0400

Is our food system broken? How can we get fresher, healthier foods to areas that need it, such as Metro Detroit?

Ordinary People Rallying Around Science

buona_forchetta — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:36:25 -0500

Just in time for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Bill McKibben’s 350.org campaign is enlisting support in the form of candlelight vigils. McKibben recently spoke at Ann Arbor’s Rackham Auditorium, at an evening sponsored by the Ecology Center. The author of the first general-audience book on climate change (The End of Nature, 1989), his new organization recently pulled off what CNN called “the most widespread day of political action in the planet’s history.”

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GREEN PARTYING: How to Entertain Without Destroying The Earth

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:56:20 -0500

BY BARCODE 2x

Here are a few ideas for how you can throw some great parties with a reduced environmental impact.

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HomeGrown Festival Review

jadelay — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:13:49 -0400

Last week, a2ethics.org went to the first HomeGrown Festival held across from the Farmer's Market in Community High field. The weather was a farmer's dream, because we needed rain. And it rained for most of the afternoon.

But as all nonprofits and most people who know about these events, if people know there will be food, they will come. And they did. According to one account, there were 1,500 festival goers. If a2ethics.org had 1,500 hits for this post, we would declare a festival too. We don't know yet how to deliver food through our ponderings.

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HomeGrown Festival and John Locke's "Acorns and Apples"

jadelay — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:59:40 -0400

This Saturday, September 13th, the first HomeGrown Festival is taking place at the Ann Arbor Community High School field across from The Farmer's Market. The event plans to highlight, "the health, economic, and environmental benefits of buying local," according to the advance publicity for the Festival.

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Can Michigan Abandon Fossil Fuels?

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:44:45 -0400

Originally submitted by: barcode 2x

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My Year of Walking

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:48:39 -0400

Originally submitted by: barcode 2x

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Swimming Pools and Skate Parks

jadelay — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:59:12 -0400

Originally submitted by: jadelay

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