Environmental Ethics

Just in time for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Bill McKibben’s 350.org campaign is enlisting support in the form of candlelight vigils.  McKibben recently spoke at Ann Arbor’s Rackham Auditorium, at an evening sponsored by the Ecology Center.  The author of the first general-audience book on climate change (The End of Nature, 1989), his new organization recently pulled off what CNN called “the most widespread day of political action in the planet’s history.” 

BY BARCODE 2x

Here are a few ideas for how you can throw some great parties with a reduced environmental impact.

Last week, a2ethics.org went to the first HomeGrown Festival held across from the Farmer's Market in Community High field. The weather was a farmer's dream, because we needed rain. And it rained for most of the afternoon.

But as all nonprofits and most people who know about these events, if people know there will be food, they will come. And they did. According to one account, there were 1,500 festival goers. If a2ethics.org had 1,500 hits for this post, we would declare a festival too. We don't know yet how to deliver food through our ponderings.

This Saturday, September 13th, the first HomeGrown Festival is taking place at the Ann Arbor Community High School field across from The Farmer's Market. The event plans to highlight, "the health, economic, and environmental benefits of buying local," according to the advance publicity for the Festival.

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