Sustainability

It's so simple and perfectly legal. Don't let the wealthy suffer.

A study that was published in 1999: How do we reason? What are highly competent people and how do we recognize competence in ourselves and in others.

While I think climate change, in the broadest sense, is the very real and very large shadow hovering over the entire planet, the goofy and unsustainable private health care system in the U.S. is a shadow hanging over Americans and an obstacle to creating a viable and competitive society. For another example of this nonsensical system see Health.

Of late I've been seeing more and more articles on energy and climate change, perhaps to coincide with the debate just beginning in Congress.

This past Tuesday night ABC had a special entitled Earth 2100, which painted a gloomy picture of what our planet could possibly look like by 2100.

At the same time I have been receiving a lot of e-mails offering reasons and analysis on why Americans are not more “committed” to addressing climate change in a serious way. One of the latest ones I've gotten is

According to Jay Walker, entrepreneur and inventor, English is a language of problem solving, which is one reason why millions of Chinese are determined to become proficient in it. What are we Americans learning? What will be our potential opportunities? See English.

Jonathan Drori, media and learning specialist, reminds us—again--that all human life depends on plants.

But plants across the globe are under threat because of climate change and us, Homo sapiens. Drori discusses The Millennium Seed Bank project and how storing seeds are the plants' future as well as ours. This type of project should be supported by all of us. Go to Seed Bank.

Your challenge Discovery Institute: Locate a gene without an evolutionary heritage, a non-evolutionary origin. Seemingly only in America does this Intelligent Design/Creationism story continue to get some traction as science. Go to Challenge.

Well, it is California, but the rest of us ought not to be smug. It may portend something not very pleasant—for all of us. John Delasantellis offers his opinion about the end-of-the-ride. See California's Sweet Dream Sours.

It could be an idea beyond absurd or the beginning of something new, but Kazakhstan wants to build a nuclear "fuel bank." The reality is however that global instability is here.

The big ideas are now out in the open: energy, climate change, and health care. But of course we haven't figured out yet how to build the steel bridge to cross the chasm and leave the land of darkness behind.

Certainly be suspicious of smiling politicians and corporations that do promise a bridge; it may end up being nothing more than a piece of rope. The good ideas could vanish just as quickly as they appeared.