For 21 days, I will be collecting garbage on my daily walks and sharing with you a few photos of my fascinating findings, my captivating collection, some garbage-specific research, and numerous thoughts about the experience. Today I will write about how you can easily compost at home, but first I will share my pleasant and [...]
Talkin’ Trash: Days 11 – 13 of Rubbish
For nearly two weeks now, I have been collecting garbage on my daily walks and documenting the experience while conducting related research. It’s a lab experiment of sorts where the earth is my lab. An interesting secondary gain from this journey, is the opportunity it has afforded me to engage many folks in conversation. Little did I [...]
About Obesity and Entertainment
The number of Americans that are overweight is startling. As consumers, we must re-evaluate eating and exercise habits as well as how–and how much–we entertain ourselves. One of the major causes of obesity is based on personal experiences and circumstances, but more specifically–stress. Another has to do with genetics. Americans have been forced to cope [...]
Privatized Trash: Days 8 – 10 of Rubbish
For 21 days, I will be collecting garbage on my daily walks and sharing with you a few photos of my fascinating findings, my captivating collection, some garbage-specific research and numerous thoughts about the experience. The earth, while expansive and seemingly infinite, is methodically churning into one massive garbage dump. Each week Mr. or Mrs. [...]
Palin, Fear, and Mama Grizzlies
Sarah Palin’s “mama grizzlies” video fans the flames of fear that already fuel the over-parenting trend in this country. In an apparent effort to reach out to middle of-the-road women, Palin’s PAC video launches a vague attack on the “fundamental transformation of this country,” embedded with a challenge for moms to take action toward preserving [...]
Suffragists on the Western Frontier
August 26th was Women’s Equality Day, in commemoration of the passage of the 19th Amendment, which formally recognized women’s right to vote in the United States. This year is particularly special, as it marks 90 years of women casting their ballots. But did you know that women in many of the Western states were voting [...]
Hugh Hefner Superstar | A Review of Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
Celebrities, here’s a tip worthy of the Playboy Advisor: If you consent to a documentary biography, make sure you hire a pal to direct. After making Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel, the only remaining to-do items for director Brigitte Berman is to nominate her subject for the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of [...]
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Culture & History
Hickory Sticks and Hard Cider: The Pre-Civil War Democratic Party and the People
This is the second part in a series discussing the origins and ancestry of the modern Democratic Party. In the first part, I explored the manifestation and development of the two party system following the American Revolution. Now, I will look at the evolution of those parties from the War of 1812 till the mid-1800s, right before [...]
Gender & Feminism
Reflections on a Summer of Weddings
“By the power invested in me by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, I now pronounce you a married couple.” I’ve heard variations on this phrase many times in my life. It is familiar to anyone who has ever attended a wedding, or who has seen a wedding portrayed on film or television. In other words, we [...]
Environment
James Hansen’s Storms of my Grandchildren
The Scientific is Political and Personal: NASA Scientist James Hansen Reaches Out in Storms of My Grandchildren In June 1988, NASA scientist James Hansen testified to the U.S. Senate that global warming was underway and humans were a factor. As Hansen recounts in Storms of my Grandchildren, he thought U.S. politicians would do the logical [...]
Creating Solutions
Feminism and Veganism: An Interview with Carol J. Adams, Part 2
After a score of years in print, what is the cultural score on the feminist-vegan message about meat-eating? This is the second in a two part interview with Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory, in which Carol talks with Ann Dunnewold, Ph.D., about the progress–and lack thereof–in [...]
Creating Solutions
World Hunger – Be the Solution
This past May I undertook what many people considered an unusual project: I starved myself for seven days. Inspired by the actions of Kenda Swartz Pepper, I did a World Hunger Souljourn of my own; mimicking the diet of the world’s 1.02 billion chronically hungry people while researching and exploring the causes of, and the [...]
Creating Solutions
Twenty Years of “The Sexual Politics of Meat:” An Interview With Carol J. Adams
The unquestioned vegan bible, The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory, celebrates twenty years in print this year with the release of an updated anniversary edition. At the same time, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management released research detailing the continued link between meat-eating and gender role stereotypes, i.e., real men still don‘t [...]
Creating Solutions
21 Days of Rubbish: Leave No Trace
For 21 days, I will be collecting garbage on my daily walks and sharing with you a few photos of my fascinating findings, my captivating collection, some garbage-specific research, and numerous thoughts about the experience. I originally intended to write about the local landfill today, but instead, I decided to share exclusively on my recent [...]
Current Events, Politics & Economy
Slinging Stones at Goliath: NGOs in Croatia Battle to Save the Landscape
This is the first part of a series -Slinging Stones at Goliath – that examines cases where small, local NGOs have taken on powerful interests and made a difference. Here, groups in Croatia are fighting to save an idyllic landscape from being destroyed by an outrageous project to build golf courses and hotels.
Mind & Body
Myth or reality? Think yourself healthy
The law of attraction. Create your own reality. Manifest the life of your dreams. The buzz sucks us in—who wouldn’t want to achieve the ideal life simply by thinking the “right thoughts?” But what are the facts? This recurring column for skeptics explores the scientific research on the mind-body connection and the power of thought [...]
Creating Solutions
Souljourn for the Mind, Spirit and Earth: 21 Days of Rubbish
For the next 21 days, I will be collecting garbage on my daily walks and sharing with you a few photos of my fascinating findings, my captivating collection, some garbage-specific research and numerous thoughts about the experience. Living along California’s Central Coast lends itself to daily joys beginning with the early morning calls of seagulls [...]
Community & Activist Toolkit
10 Tips to Hip Your Non-Profit
In my last article of my nonprofit series, I gave advice on how to tell if your non-profit is uncool…er…climatically challenged. “But Molly,” you may have thought to yourself, “now that I know I have a lame non-profit, what do I do about it?”
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