2 results for author: raronson
Lighting a (Renewably-Fueled) Fire in my Stomach
The biggest thing I have ever learned as an adult is to take personal responsibility; to do what I can, and to do it the best I can. When I hear about large scale fracking and the incredible harm it causes, and the enormous harm caused by industrial agriculture, I ask myself: what can I do to make change? It’s easy to feel overwhelmed, but I am motivated to take action through advocacy, action, and education.
I have to admit, I find the whole concept of changing the government's fracking and fossil fuel policies daunting. I find just as daunting the idea of getting money-guzzling large corporations to use clean energy. One thing I know I can do ...
Throw Out the Cookie Jar …. And Save the Planet
As a lifetime Weight Watcher, I have learned a few tricks.
The most helpful to me was this one: Banish red light food from your home...and keep healthy food cut up and ready to eat at the front of your refrigerator in plastic see-through containers. Now what does that have to do with saving the planet? Well, a whole lot.
Fracked gas is not healthy for people or the climate. Neither is nuclear-powered electricity. These are red-light energy products, the healthy alternatives being solar and wind energy. Even knowing this, companies profiting from red light dirty energies cannot resist the cookie jar of continuing as a bridge solution.
I ...