“IT’S HIP TO BE #GREENERSQUARE” by: Madeleine Somerville via the Earth911 Blog Natural. Sustainable. Eco-Friendly. Fair-Trade. These are the golden words of 2015 – if you’re marketing a product and you put these hallowed terms on your product label – and maybe sneak “gluten-free” somewhere in there, too- your product is pretty much guaranteed to leap…
The decision to close the 68th Cannes Film Festival with Luc Jacquet’s poignant documentary, La glace et le ciel (“Ice and Sky”), sends a rather clear message: “let’s stop messing about and finally get down to business, eh?” In a press release straight from the proverbial horse’s mouth, the festival underlined that, “to program…
I’m sure you’re busy celebrating the natural beauty that is planet Earth on this special day – maybe planting trees, cleaning your local river or building a composting bin, but why not take a break and wind down with a few great reads. 5. An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What…
Wind down this Wednesday with a beautiful classic, known to be one of America’s most celebrated works of literature, Walden by Henry David Thoreau _ The Greener Square Review: In Walden, Henry David Thoreau achieves the complex philosophical task of describing how the metaphysical aspects of nature catalyze a form of human enlightenment. Through this…
For our first #WindDownWednesday, we ask that you take a break and wind down with this brilliant, #1 selling book: “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate” by Naomi Klein About the book: “In ‘This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate,’ Naomi Klein argues that climate change isn’t just another issue to be neatly filed…
Q: What does “greener” mean? A: “Greener” is the next step in the “green” movement. If “green” means good for the environment, “greener” means good for the environment and the people. There is often an expression of cognitive dissonance between actions that are ‘good for you’ and ‘good the environment’. We think there shouldn’t be.…
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Greener Square
August 25, 2015
Lucas Hamren
