[This paper isn't due until Monday - I finished it Thursday night. Enjoy!] Executive Summary: Impediments to Establishing Global Sustainability Ron Khare The purpose of this paper is to identify and clearly explain the single largest challenge to the establishment of global...
The Jeavons Paradox ...
posted by Ron Khare
Reading: The Efficiency Dilemma (which you can read HERE!) The better (more efficient) we are at doing something industrial (using coal power, increasing miles-per=gallon), the more we end up doing it. That is, rather than see an overall decrease of gasoline consumption due to more...
Inner Nature, Outer ...
posted by Ron Khare
I wonder why the word “nature” is used to describe such radically different things. One definition includes all the trees, rocks, grass, water, animals, sands… those places and things which are least touched by mankind. But another definition is used to describe the inner behavior of...
The New Hours are th...
posted by Ron Khare
It’s 11:24pm, and I’m wondering about social customs. It hot climates, it’s traditional to take a “siesta” – that is, a several-hour long “lunch break” during the hottest parts of the day. During this leisure time people will eat, nap, drink...
Eco-Feminism
posted by Ron Khare
Eco-Feminism Reading #1 – The Quilt and Ecological Feminism (Interview with Karen J Warren): This is my first real exposure to feminist thought, so it was a bit hard trying to figure out both what feminism was and how eco-feminism differs from it. The concept of...