Environmental Lies

I was watching Suze Orman, all fired up, talking about what is happening to the economy these last few days.  I liken the warnings Suze has been giving to individuals for the last decade, to the warnings that environmentalists have been giving regarding how we live so irresponsibly. The only difference is that instead of [...]

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Do Something!

It seems to me that “thinking” becomes increasingly difficult, delicate, even painful… We’ve never had more access to information as we do today, and we have never been lonelier. So here is my thought “du jour”: We hear and read so much about pollution and environmental degradation that now everyone is claiming to be green [...]

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Global warming, not our fault!?!

Thursday, noon time, I am walking around the tables of the Rotary club, shaking hands, mingling, sipping on my ice tea. I greet, I smile, I blend into the small crowd with ease. “Are you the speaker?” they ask. “Yes, Roberto, pleased to meet you.” A few minutes later I meet Tom, the construction guy, [...]

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Good for business…, oh, and for the environment too!

I was on a conference call with the Merrill Lynch Environmental Town Hall for one hour and heard about the work that ML is doing with their Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives. They opened with one employee question: “Why do we need to worry about social responsibility when we should concentrate on investment returns?” Their answer, [...]

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