http://www.sustainabilitycoalition.org/_excerpt/spirituality-and-sustainability Connecting students across California to make our universities more sustainable. Mon, 06 May 2013 21:44:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.sustainabilitycoalition.org/_excerpt/spirituality-and-sustainability/comment-page-1#comment-27105 James Singmaster,!!!, Ph.D. Sun, 15 Jul 2012 07:06:41 +0000 http://www.sustainabilitycoalition.org/?p=8832#comment-27105 Sense of need to allow our kids to survive us is what ought to drive sustainabliity. AND the needed action for real sustainability is making our mounting ever-growing messes of organic wastes, especially biowastes, the major point for such action. No one seems to realize that biowastes are an already harvested forever biofuel supply usurping no land, water, or fertilizers from food crops. Unfortunately much of our biowastes gets dumped to allow unneeded biodegrading to reemit trapped CO2 and energy. Worse, biowastes have drugs, toxics and germs that get hidden away to escape. A process called pyrolysis can be applied to convert about about 50% of the carbon in biowastes to inert charcoal with the other 50% expelled and collected to serve as a renewable fuel supply or a source of chemicals to replace those gotten from oil. I am retired with my Ph.D. from Davis, 75, in environmental chemistry and toxicology.
If anyone wants more details, I have posted on such blogs as E-360, NRDC’s Switctboard,
and NYTimes Green and Dotearth Blogs Or e-mail me at jasingIII@aol.com
DON”T LET YOUR FUTURES BE BURIED BY OUR CONTINUED MISHANDLING OF ORGANIC WASTES.

]]> http://www.sustainabilitycoalition.org/_excerpt/spirituality-and-sustainability/comment-page-1#comment-26556 Carlos Thu, 07 Jun 2012 03:59:50 +0000 http://www.sustainabilitycoalition.org/?p=8832#comment-26556 Great perspective! As much as we like to use science to support our efforts to protect the environment, the spirtual has always been present in everybody who has had a picnic, gone hiking, or enjoyed a sunset.

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