(This letter was published in the Chapel Hill News, 2 December 2007.)
Congratulations are due Nobel Prize Winner, Al Gore. By raising awareness of the scientific consensus on climate change, he favors a good enough future for our children. At least to me, the “powers that be” are in denial of reality and unwilling to openly […]
Author Archives: editor
Clarity of vision on environment needed
December 8, 2007 – 5:00 pm
World Food and Human Population Growth, by Russell Hopfenberg, Ph.D.
October 20, 2007 – 3:49 pm
We’ve added to the Sustainability Southeast home page a new narrated multimedia presentation by Russell Hopfenberg, Ph.D. Hopfenberg describes how food supply drives human population growth, and how human population growth adversely affects our environment and our ability to sustain our culture.
Click to view Hopfenberg’s presentation
It’s time for leaders to tackle problems
August 25, 2007 – 3:01 pm
(This letter was published in the Chapel Hill News, 15 August 2007.)
Bravo to Winston Kirby for his CHN letter of August 8th, “Candidates ignore pressing problems”. Many too many politicians and corporate CEOs are ignominiously disregarding consistent and overwhelming scientific evidence of global warming and other pernicious forms of climate change. Everyone understands the […]
Humans still face looming challenges
May 14, 2007 – 1:18 pm
(This letter was published in the Chapel Hill News, 13 May 2007.)
May 27 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Rachel Carson, a woman of distinction who is widely recognized as one of the most brilliant and brave scientists in modern history.
Some people have called Carson the mother of the contemporary environmental movement. She […]
Reality and illusion compete for our attention
February 13, 2007 – 4:44 pm
(Steven Salmony wrote this Guest Column for the Chapel Hill News, 11 February 2007.)
Each human culture presents its many members with knowledge of reality and with longstanding, adamantly held perceptions that are illusory. For example, unverified cultural transmissions can give rise to widely shared distortions of the world whenever mistaken impressions are consensually validated as […]
Population growth overwhelms planet
January 12, 2007 – 9:40 am
(This letter was published in the Chapel Hill News, 10 January 2007.)
Time magazine’s Person of the Year is YOU. That’s right. You and me and every other person on the planet have been chosen as “person of the year” in 2006. We are becoming aware of people power, we are told.
This could mean that almost […]
Early mornings with leviathan
November 30, 2006 – 10:00 am
(This letter was published in the Chapel Hill News, 22 November 2006.)
Just before dawn, I awakened for no apparent reason, leapt out of bed, opened the back door and wandered down to the water’s edge.
Everyone else was still slumbering in a dream state, I supposed. Darkness overspread Eastwood Lake and the homes surrounding it. There […]
Earthaven follow-up
November 27, 2006 – 11:56 am
Joel Achenbach, the author of the Washington Post article about Earthaven, has written a bit more about reactions to the article at his blog site. He notes that the Earthaven article is part of a series of articles that explore our cultural values.
Last week Achenbach also participated in an online conversation with readers. Many […]
Reactions to Earthaven
November 20, 2006 – 8:07 pm
Yesterday’s Sunday Washington Post newspaper (and web site) features an article about Earthaven, a small, energy conscious, environmentally responsible intentional community in western North Carolina.
I found the article to be surprisingly thoughtful and mostly respectful. Writer Joel Achenbach explores the attitudes and interests of people who are willing to try to live “Another Way“.
It’s […]
Infinite growth cannot be supported
October 23, 2006 – 4:17 pm
(This letter was published in the Chapel Hill News, 22 October 2006.)
Let us take a moment to appreciate our neighbor, Winston L. Kirby, for the Oct. 11 letter to the editor, “Growth mentality seems unalterable.” Thankfully, what seems to be real is occasionally an illusion.
Such is the case with regard to the growth of the […]
