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Green Consultant Advocates Two Child Limit: Oy
Tweet Share on Facebook February 2, 2009 Comment (10)Jonathan Porritt, the chair of the U.K.'s Sustainable Development Commission, has recently advocated a profoundly unpopular opinion: that couples who choose to have more than two children are environmentally irresponsible. “I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how many children they think are appropriate,” Porritt said.
Sure, climate change is linked to a growing population. But this kind of a hard-line stance, which gnaws away at some of our most ingrained personal freedoms, is not really helping the matter. We've seen a prevalence of green grinches lately - my other favorite example being the Slate author who told us to break up with long-distance lovers to save the environment. Flights to see a significant other who lives far away sure are bad for the earth, especially if they're frequent. So is bringing another polluting, consuming human into this world.
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Green Commercials of Super Bowl XLIII
Tweet Share on Facebook February 2, 2009 Comment (2)It seems like this year's collection of Super Bowl commercials was more about the ads that didn't air than the ones that did.
The most noteworthy example is that of PETA: in a brilliant and transparent publicity move, they made a commercial too racy for prime time, and used the resulting publicity from being banned by NBC to their advantage. When I wrote about that ad last week, equal numbers of commenters thought the ad was too explicit (and didn't do much to further the cause of vegetarianism) as those who thought the ad was no racier than the stuff we already see during the game. It was also apparent that the economy had taken a bite out of companies' advertising budgets - so many of the ads that ran were filler from NBC. But in the mix there were a few ads for green causes - watch them below, and let me know which ones were your favorites (or if you thought they were all lame) in the comments.
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Audio: Greening Your Super Bowl Party
Tweet Share on Facebook February 1, 2009 CommentMost Super Bowl parties are well underway, but the tips that I mentioned on WTOP radio in Washington, D.C. today are universal for any major get together. Listen below for ways to make a party greener, or read my green Super Bowl tips here.
The Super Bowl Goes Green
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