Archive for the ‘Reflections’ Category

Matt Polsky, Passaic River Coalition

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Matt Polsky, Research Fellow of the Institute for Sustainable Enterprise, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Director of the Land Trust, Passaic River Coalition
Email:innovator3@hotmail.com - http://fdu.edu/ise
Mr. Polsky works on several ISE projects, including the Incubator. He is a sustainability change-agent. He has extensive sustainability and green economy experience, as well as unique cross-sector experience working in government, [...]

Review of What a Way to Go

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

What a Way to Go is the strongest statement yet of the multiple crises that are facing us as a planet and as a species today. It differs from the other major documentaries we’ve seen recently – Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, and Leonardo DiCaprio’s The 11th Hour, in several important ways – both in [...]

Addressing the Realities of Climate Change

Friday, September 28th, 2007

Attending this week’s Clean Energy Conference and Leadership Awards, at the Hyatt Regency in New Brunswick, New Jersey, left me wondering if we are really ready to cope with the climate change crisis. And New Jersey is now in the lead – along with California – in mandating significant carbon reduction targets. But if there [...]

The 11th Hour; or is already it much later than that?

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

The 11th Hour is clearly a movie that needed to be made – and needs to be widely seen – and Leonardo DiCaprio has done a creditable job in lending his talents and star presence to the effort. Yet in some ways, and perhaps not least in the marketing of it, it still pulls [...]

Sustainability – the new imperative

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

“Moving Beyond Kyoto” – Al Gore’s July 1, 2007 New York Times op-ed:
“Just in the last few months, new studies have shown that the north polar ice cap — which helps the planet cool itself — is melting nearly three times faster than the most pessimistic computer models predicted. Unless we take action, summer ice [...]


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