The Guardian newspaper ran a profile of a fascinating woman living in South London that I thought was well worth clipping. 68-year-old Joan Pick hasn’t flown since 1971, hasn’t driven a car since 1973, she only eats raw vegetarian food, washes her own clothes, walks and jogs everywhere and avoids many other trappings set up […]

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It is nice see that some artists are engaging in ecological issues, an engagement that is surprisingly rare, considering how in the past the arts scene used to be more political - it seems like climate change, alternative energy and green issues in general haven’t caught the art world’s imagination - But, as I said, […]

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As many of you may have seen on a recent edition of Newsweek magazine (7-14 July), the Environmental Performance Index (EPI) is a joint initiative between Yale’s Center for Law & Environmental Policy and Columbia’s Center for International Earth Science Information Network. According to Newsweek, “EPI aims to be a comprehensive assessment of the world’s […]

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I have to admit that I am a talk radio junkie. I was just getting up this Saturday and since my usual talk radio was in re-broadcasts, I was listening to the Oprah and Friends radio network.
The founder, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Starbucks, Howard Schultz, was on the radio. […]

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