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Category Archives: 4. ENVIRONMENT
Education: Losing Your Element
Do schools kill creativity? This is the opening question of an interesting interview with Sir Ken Robinson, an “expert” on creativity and innovation. The answer is deceptively simple: “Yes, of course they do.” Though this may sound somewhat sarcastic, the … Continue reading
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Disaster: The Breath of the Gulf Oil Spill
The end effect of the Gulf Oil Spill disaster will not be known for many years. Some of the effects will be immediate and obvious, while others are far more mercurial and illusive. As with all disasters, a large contingent … Continue reading
Environment: The Hidden Life of Garbage
This speaks for itself…
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Tagged contamination, degradation, destruction, garbage, pollution
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Environment: Distraction — Media Multitasking
Distraction is an illness that impairs our ability to think, focus, and concentrate. Chronic mental distraction leads to chronic physical symptoms of anxiety and stress. Multi-tasking is not only a deception, it inspires mental and physical illness. New media represent … Continue reading
Effects of Media: The Children of Cyberspace
[Exploring Life] Brad Stone’s NY Times article The Children of Cyberspace raises a number of poignant issues regarding our relationship with technology. Heralding in a new type of “generation” by some individual claiming “visionary” status seems like an all too … Continue reading
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Nutrition: Organic Food vs. Non-Organic Food
[Exploring Life] The ignorance of scientists and science can at times be so blinding that it leaves us wondering how such an obvious lack of intelligence and common sense gains even a remote sense of credibility — let alone attention. … Continue reading
Ecopsychology: Water — A Fundamental Human Right
[Exploring Life] Can an individual or organization claim the right to own and profit from a natural resource that is essential to the preservation and well being of all life on our planet? The battle to claim ownership and control … Continue reading
Food: Canadian Organic Products Regulation
[Exploring Life] The Canadian Organic Products Regulations were first published in December of 2006. The regulations come into full force on June 20, 2009. The regulations establish a consistent and reliable set of standards that legally require organic products to … Continue reading
Effects of Media: Writing — The Shifting Style of Elements
[Exploring Life] The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published 50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice in response to the release of the commemorative edition of Strunk and White’s famous The Elements of Style.[1] The article condemns Strunk and White’s advice … Continue reading
Effects of Media: The Technium
[Exploring Life] The word technology can be an illusive term. Technology originates in the Greek technologia which combines craft (techne) and saying (logia). A common understanding of technology refers to the physical tools and hardware hardware of an object that … Continue reading