Lincoln, NE: sharing what "green" we have to attract what we lack.
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Introducing I=E
A personal economic and environmental impact theory:
I = E, where “I” represents the amount of an individual’s income, and “E” represents the extent of negative impact one’s activities have on the natural environment.
I (personal income) = E (negative environmental impact)
General Interpretation:
I=E recognizes economic growth as the principal culprit involving our environmental sustainability problem, and personal income as a mea
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In recent years, we have been confronted with evidence of a looming environmental catastrophe. Apparently, the nearly seven billion of us are consuming resources faster than the Earth’s ability to replenish them. Symptoms of overconsumption include global climate change, the destruction of ecosystems, a reduction in biodiversity, and overall worldwide environmental degradation. We have also seen the world economy, key to life as we know it, teeter on the brink of collapse. Wages have been red
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Written by W. Cecil Steward, FAIA, President; Joslyn Castle Institute For Sustainable Communities
The recent Earth Day celebration helped raise awareness of the numerous environmental challenges before us, ranging from air and water quality, to resource shortages, habitat loss, and climate change. The good news is that we have the ability to successfully address these challenges.
The first step is to evaluate each of our activities, with the purpose of discove
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Do you know how and where Arbor Day started?
Arbor Day was created by J. Sterling Morton, a journalist who lived in Nebraska City in the 1800s. Mr. Morton and the other pioneers who traveled to Nebraska found that they missed the trees they had back east.
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Written by W. Cecil Steward, FAIA, President; Joslyn Castle Institute For Sustainable Communities
One of the criteria for determining whether a community is becoming, or has achieved a stature of, a “sustainable community” is its willingness to engage in open and accessible civil, civic debate over the appropriation of its resources – be they environmental, human/social capital, technologies, economic and financial, or conditions of government and policy. These are the principa
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On September 20, 1969, Senator Gaylord Nelson announced plans for a nation-wide environmental teach-in. “I am convinced,” he said, “that all we need to do to bring an overwhelming insistence of the new generation that we stem the tide of environmental disaster is to present the facts clearly and dramatically. To marshal such an effort, I am proposing a national teach-in on the crisis of the environment to be held next spring on every university campus across the Nation.” The first Earth Day w
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