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I've been away from my Bioneers blog for a while as I've spent time traveling and updating my other blog, which has pictures, podcasts and writing from our travels. At the moment I'm writing from Ulaanbataar, Mongolia which looks like a combination of Albuquerque, NM and Anchorage, Alaska - or something like that. Mongolia has the world's lowest population density with 1 million living in the city here and another one million spread… Continue

Due to a perfect storm of opportunities, I'll be traveling from Morocco to Japan for the next seven months. I will be writing and podcasting via my wordpress blog and I'll likely mirror the posts here as well. It's an exciting time to be in the US at the moment, I'm anticipating it will be an exciting time to be an American traveling abroad and I'm looking forward to sharing my trip with folks in this community.

A map of my planned itinerary is a… Continue

Check out this piece from Salon.com. Bill McKibben, Joseph Romm and John Whitehead chime in on how to 'green up' Obama's stimulus package.

For the past several weeks I've been watching the struggling US auto industry with a dueling combination of anxiety and scorn. My sense is that I'm certainly not the only one with these feelings. One the one hand, there's an awful lot riding on the backs of the auto industry in this country. By some estimates, almost one in ten jobs in the US are tied to Detroit. This teetering tower of cars is no joke. On the other hand, I c… Continue

The National Collaborative Work Group on Green Cleaning and Chemical Policy Reform in Schools (whew - that's a bit of a mouthful) has created a "Cleaning for Healthy Schools" online toolkit and is offering a series of free webinars to train folks up on how to best utilize this tool. You can find details at their website and register for the online trainings there.

Mouthful though it m… Continue