Journal: Cognitive Dissonance, Military Suicides, and an Alternative Interpretation of the Fort Hood Deaths

For over many years now Phi Beta Iota has been emphasizing both the inappropriate secrecy and obscurity contrived for our dead and wounded, and the almost total black-out on both amputees (many of them multiple amputees) and suicides. We now know that Gulf I brought back over 250,000 disabled veterans, and that the toxic brew …

Journal: Environmental Lip Service vs the Real Deal

Reid, Herbert G. and Taylor, Betsy, :John Dewey’s Aesthetic Ecology of Public Intelligence and the Grounding of Civic Environmentalism” in Ethics & the Environment – Volume 8, Number 1, Spring 2003, pp. 74-92 This paper argues for the importance of John Dewey’s aesthetic philosophy to recent efforts to cultivate civic environmentalism while critiquing narrowly conservationist …

Review: Business Stripped Bare–Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur

Inspirational and Practical as Well October 31, 2009 Richard Branson I picked this up half-price at Copenhagen airport, and I liked it so much I have ordered Screw It, Let’s Do It (Expanded Edition): 14 Lessons on Making It to the Top While Having Fun & Staying Green. I must note that normally I would …

Review: 75 Green Businesses You Can Start to Make Money and Make A Difference

Phenomenal Overview, Reference, Exceeded Expectations October 18, 2009 Glenn Croston I bought and read this book along with Green Intelligence: Creating Environments That Protect Human Health and Careers in Renewable Energy: Get a Green Energy Job. This book is everything I could have wanted and more–it exceeded expecations. For each of 75 “opportunities” sorted within …