Vinodh Valluri's Blog (13)

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Campus Sustainability Organizations Partner to Expand Resources

Collaboration designed to enhance global higher education sustainability dialogue

York, U.K. (March 27, 2012)—With the goal of fostering a global dialogue around higher education sustainability, the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education…

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http://www.hindu.com/2011/06/23/stories/2011062363550300.htm

 

Plastic bags are neither a small nor a big issue. Save the trees, Use plastic?

How much more ignorant could people get? Plastic is what is choking up Mother Earth's throat!!!

What is the general intellectual understanding - that jute and cloth bags are for rich people??? What was it like in 1970s and 80s, when to carry plastic…

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http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/other-states/article2101043.ece

This article left me with a sunken feeling in the pit of my stomach - just the kind of news that makes the average monday of an environmental professional even more dreary and polluting... …

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Vengeful.

That seems to be the mood of the powers that control our planet. Mother Nature cracks Her whip mercilessly, repeatedly. Too much has happened in the North American eco-region within the last few months to discount the necessity for a humble analysis. Texas cried, praying with a parched throat, as wildfires ravaged more than a million of acres of land.. and rain…

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Nearly four years of living in America, and not even a single cup of milk that is completely guiltless. Yes. From Arlington, TX, to Lexington, KY, it has been difficult for me to find compassion, purity, and love in milk. Petaluma, where I live, is a place of farms and fertile soil, cows and land - the original wealth of men. So, it was not a surprise when I found the best plain milk I had in the last four years of living in the US coming from … Continue

Not a lot of people like this season. I myself claim to have a complicated love-hate relationship with Winter, loving the delightful snow-scapes, and grunting at the surprisingly deep reach of those icy winds. Too bad, it takes a lot of determination to wake up early enough to appreciate the depth and clarity of mornings' freshest thoughts written in the sobering gray sky.. There is no real beauty in this world, but merely infinite…

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The environmental movement took birth in the United States of America in

the 1960's, about the same time as several social 'upheavals'. Decades

since the clarion calls of Bhopal, 'love canal', 3-mile Island, Rachel

Carson, and Aldo Leopold, the environmental movement of today looks like

'she' has crossed her teenage years. Well past her young adult life, it

looks like 'she' feels like an old aunt, or an ignored grandmother, or a

similar maternal figure in whom… Continue

Remember the feeling in your guts during a roller-coaster ride in an amusement park? Hold it in mind when you read the following. This week in Ancient Futures, we delve into a territory far more thrilling, and yet less amusing, to most people. For those of us who desist from discussing death and its after-effects, this will be an uncomfortable read. For those of you who are wondering why 'death' needs discussion on arena where environmental sustainability topics are the clear focus, this will… Continue

One of my favorite professors at school, Dr. Tim Henry, who practiced dentistry for a while, and now teaches anatomy & physiology, amongst other subjects, lent form to a nebulous idea that had been floating in my mind for a long time. He views the imbalance on our planet akin to imbalance in our body - disease as a dangerous shift from a stable condition of health or…

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