Implying that we cannot put a price on environmental responsibility, Maine’s Senator Edmund Muskie (1914-1996) once said, “Can we afford clean water? Can we afford rivers and lakes…which continue to make life possible…?…These questions answer themselves.” A recent article in the…
In selected cities, Panera Bread is letting you decide what to pay for a bowl of turkey chili. Knowing that that the firm will cover its costs and the rest will go to charity, many people are paying more than…
By Amy Tourgee, guest blogger, Kent Place School alumna and Environmental Studies undergraduate at Princeton University On Sunday afternoon, I accidentally but fortuitously read a certain New York Times article. Since I now live at a research center in the…
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