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WILSON’S BOTTLENECK
Renowned biologist Edmund O. Wilson estimates that the “combined biomass” (that means weight of the human population of the earth) is one hundred times greater than that of any other large species that...
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SOLVIVA
Type www.solviva.com into your web browser, and you get a luminously green page that advertises, “Sustainable Solar-Dynamic Bio-Benign Design: /Offering Better Ways to Live, at Less Cost /Today and...
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CHINESE WATER TORTURE
Last month I talked to you about China’s impossible dream—to have a living standard on a par with the U.S. There just ain’t enough oil , wood or grain in the world for it to happen, in a nutshell....
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PROGRESS?
About 35 years ago, my friends and I came to Tennessee from all around America. We landed in a little place called Lewis County, where nothing much had ever happened—Hohenwald, the county seat, hadn’t...
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MAYOR’S MARATHON
A few months back, I promised you that I would be investigating the green aspects of Nashville’s various mayoral candidates. The election’s not ’till August, so I figured I had plenty of time—but then...
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AS IF THERE WILL BE NO DELUGE…
A number of bits of local news and commentary have come to my attention lately: Mayor Dean’s “State of the City” address, the report of the Green Ribbon Committee for a Sustainable Nashville, news...
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SUSTAINABILITY? GROWTH? OR GROWING SUSTAINABIILITY?
I recently read the “Sustainable Tennessee Agenda,” issued by the Tennessee Environmental Council and Tennessee Conservation Voters. You can find it online yourself at www.SustainableTN.org. I had to...
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