Blog Entries for Will Adams tagged 'modern world'

Idea 13: Our earth is in critical condition and we are the life support

will@oneplanetonelife.com — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0100

JEROME RINGO
President, The Apollo Alliance

Today the environment is at the forefront of everyone's thoughts, not only in this country but also worldwide. I haven't seen an issue with such a magnetic capacity to bring people together since the Civil Rights movement.

Excessive temperatures have a greater impact on the poor who have less access to air conditioning and proper heating. Poor people have less access to health care to deal with climate-related medical problems. Water is a maj [...]

Idea 12: A chance to fix a neighborhood

will@oneplanetonelife.com — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0100

MAJORA CARTER
Executive Director And Founder, Sustainable South Bronx

A chance to fix a neighborhood
There is a huge hole in our economic fabric where clean tech should be. And residents of this community can be trained to fill these "green collar" jobs. Instead of all these economic-growth agencies pushing for stadiums or big-box stores where the average wage is $7 an hour, the city could invest in cleaner transportation systems such as barges and rail lines to connect us [...]

Idea 2: Energy efficiency is the ultimate answer

will@oneplanetonelife.com — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0100

ARTHUR H. ROSENFELD, PH.D.
Commissioner, California Energy Commission

Energy efficiency is the ultimate answer
If we're going to survive global warming, there are two things we must do. We have to move in the direction of renewable energy, such as wind and solar power, and we have to improve energy efficiency. You can measure it in different ways-passenger miles per gallon of gas, lumens per watt-but we need to think in terms of doubling efficiency. Not "conservation," whi [...]

Idea 1: The next 50 years are make-or-break

will@oneplanetonelife.com — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100

JOHN R. MCNEILL
Former Cinco Hermanos Chair Of Environmental and International Affairs, Georgetown University

The next 50 years are make-or-break
The way I look at it, global climate change and the environment have been important for quite some time. I hope they stay here in the forefront of the U.S. consciousness, but they may not. Something could relegate those issues to the margins tomorrow. Since 9/11, the situation has been fairly simple and straightforward: issues of terrorism [...]

We cannot rely on technology to save us

will@oneplanetonelife.com — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Technology provides us with some answers to the environmental challenges we are facing. Hybrid technologies have recently made it to the auto market, promising more fuel efficient transportation and less greenhouse emissions. Hydrogen fuels are a very promising alternative to the dirty energies we are using today. Ultra-clean and unlimited, it is the fuel of the future.

Renewable energy sources such as photovoltaics, wind and thermal energies and future renewables we can't imagine yet, prom [...]

Collision Course

will@oneplanetonelife.com — Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Our consumerism is not on a future collision course with the biosphere, it collided the day consumerism was defined and implemented as the economic standard and unit of measure for success. The theory and practice itself is based off a system that is so obviously unsustainable that a grade school student has enough knowledge to label it foolish and ignorant.

We have collided as a species with our only home and are in the process of following through. Sustainability will become our new [...]

Should you become a vegetarian?

will@oneplanetonelife.com — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Should you become a vegetarian?

Becoming a vegetarian stems for the most part as a result of a spiritual quest by an individual or a society who decides to stop eating meat. Progression of spirit NEVER involves BECOMING a meat eater. So, we can safely assume that consideration and implementation of becoming a non-meat eater is positive spiritual progression. As people on a spiritual path, becoming vegetarian is an unavoidable eventuality. Therefore, the sooner the better!

Now, the decisi [...]

Reigning King of the Modern World

will@oneplanetonelife.com — Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Materialism/Consumerism has succeeded as becoming the reigning king of the modern world. Almost all action that mankind does is measured in some means by this intangible creation. Though mankind claims to be concerned with the well being of other creatures he shares this planet with, this concern falls very, very short of the power material wealth and its measuring ugly-stick has over it.

It is not necessary to destroy or eliminate this material mindset in order for us to become an evol [...]