Category: Sustainability Education Forum

SEF News-Views Digest No. 144 (8-17-16)
Clifton Ware, Editor-Publisher

The proverbial “Elephant in the Room” is getting bigger (‘yu-u-ger’), and it’s getting harder, almost impossible, to ignore it. The elephant metaphor, of course, represents a topic most people either ignore or deny exists: overpopulation. Now that most people worldwide are finally acknowledging the reality of global warming or climate change, perhaps world citizens might also begin acknowledging the upstream cause of most environmental and socio-economic-political crises, which is: overpopulation. I realize all too well how sensitive this topic is, but I nevertheless feel compelled to bring it into the market place of topics worthy of discussing, as intelligently, sanely, and civilly as possible.

SEF News-Views Digest No. 143 (8-10-16)
Clifton Ware, Editor-Publisher

There are a several articles herein that deserve highlighting, but I’ll limit my choices to three that relate to a recently addressed common theme: How and what we think. What this has to do with creating long-term sustainability is obvious to me, but perhaps not to everyone.

SEF News-Views Digest No. 142
Clifton Ware, Editor-Publisher

> Citizens for Sustainability: St. Anthony Village Fest, Sat., Aug. 6, 10am-4pm, SAV Central Park, Silver Lake Rd. CFS Sustainability Booth (handouts, activities, pollinator pathway project). Lots to see and do!

> Citizens for Sustainability: Sustainability Walkabout, Sun., 11am,Guided tour begins at St. Anthony Village High School Cafeteria. Self-guided tour includes a solar home site, a rain garden, 2 pollinator gardens, the city’s LED technologies and Water ReUse Tank, and low-energy vehicles. Info: http://citizensforsustainability.org

As we agonize over the presidential race’s ongoing shenanigans, the impassioned cries of “Let’s take our country back” or “Make our country great again” are omnipresent in the media. Conservatives may be the loudest and most prolific “take backers”, but there are also plenty of disgruntled progressives and independents.

SEF News-Views Digest No. 141
Clifton Ware, Editor-Publisher

I’ve been “thinking” about what I consider the greatest freedom to which we humans aspire, and it’s not what typically rolls off one’s tongue. For me, it’s the ability, courage, and will to THINK (to reason, contemplate, ponder, deliberate, consider, meditate, or cogitate). In all definitions, the assumption is that maximum human brain functioning is required to achieve higher levels of consciousness.

SEF News-Views Digest No. 140
Clifton Ware, Editor-Publisher

Citizens for Sustainability: Meeting-Forum, Sat., August 13, 10am-noon, St. Anthony Village Community Center, 3301 Silver Lake Rd. Free & open to public.

Based on recent tragic police-and-citizen confrontations, it seems timely to give special attention to the ongoing concern about police confrontations with black citizens. This issue is especially relevant in creating a sustainable, viable democracy, as all citizens deserve to live safely, with just and equal treatment—within a humane socio-political system that seeks to maintain law and order.