My two previous blogs emphasizing destination rather than  diversion and survival rather than sustainability have led me to think about Black Friday, the launching pad for the Christmas shopping season. Now I know that many of my colleagues have been urging us to put the brakes on growth and production, lest we deplete our resources

Now that the 2012 election and all the partisan sniping that preceded it are finally over, it has occurred to me that the thing that’s missing in our country right now is a cooperative approach to solving society’s problems. By that, I mean we have to learn – or perhaps relearn – how to start

My last blog was about how changing our approach to recycling from one of mere “diversion” to “destination” — that is, implementing a preplanned system of directing different materials for reprocessing  – could best enable us to  create a “zero waste world.”  This again got me thinking about the meaning of “sustainability,” a subject which