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Stephen Colbert Believes in Climate Change!

Stephen Colbert believes in climate change!

Colbert: “The United States emits more CO2 per capita than the European Union and China combined. Just think what those emissions numbers would be if America still made anything.”

The science behind climate change has become a political issue.  On a recent edition of The Colbert Report, he weighs in.  Watch him make the case on our Video page.  Link here: Video

Nature Helps Deal with Stress

A recent post on The Dirt explains how nature can help us deal with stress.  It begins, “Michael Posner, professor emeritus at University of Oregon who studies attention, says that our brains gets fatigued after working for long periods of time, “particularly if we have to concentrate intensely or deal with a repetitive task.” Taking a break may or may not help deal with stress during high-pressure times. What’s crucial is the type of break taken.”  Read the article here: Nature Helps Deal with Stress.

Why Walden Matters Now

Read the Boston Globe op-ed, “Why Walden Matters Now,” by Wen Stephenson.  He writes how Thoreau’s great subject wasn’t the environment, it was “our relationship, as human beings – physically, morally, spiritually, politically – to the world in which we live, which is to say, to everything, both human and wild.”  Read the entire op-ed here: Why Walden Matters Now