This week’s Do One Thing involves any junk mail that still finds it’s way into your home. Before you tear it all up and recycle it, check to see if there is a reply envelope inside it. Don’t throw away a perfectly good envelope! Recycle everything else but save that envelope to [...]
My friend Keith over at The Unsuitablog pointed out an article that I am proclaiming the Greenwash Of The Week – an Eco-Race sponsored by the Shell Oil Company. I never saw this article when it was published over at the Guardian but Keith caught it and was quick to point out the hypocrisy in [...]
Citizen journalism, open government, status updates, community building, information sharing, crowdsourcing, and the election of a President.
Editor’s note: This is the first guest post from Max Gladwell.
Our children will inherit a world profoundly changed by the combination of technology and humanity that is social media. They’ll take for granted that their voices can be [...]
For new readers of The Good Human and for those of you who may have missed them the first time around, here are a few of my favorite articles from May of years past. With well over 1,400 articles on the site, it’s easy to miss some – I forget about some of them [...]
Hurray! Another state will stop with the bottled water nonsense! San Francisco banned the use of city money to buy single-serving plastic bottles of water back in 2007, and now New York is following suit. Governor David Patterson signed an Executive Order that will phase out the purchase and use of bottled [...]
THIS GIVEAWAY HAS ENDED. The following is an excerpt from “Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle For A Better World And A Meaningful Life” by Zoe Weil. Want to win a copy? Check out the end of the post for how to enter.
MOGO living brings about true freedom. When you have the [...]
Dear EarthTalk: What were the environmental impacts of the huge coal ash spill in Tennessee this past December?
Environmentalists’ call for an end to the age of coal—one of the dirtiest and most common of all the fossil fuels we now use—took on new urgency this past December when some 525 million gallons of wet [...]
