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Mind of Bernie

Doing My Part For Earth Day


This 20-minute talk is informative and passionate about environmental issues and sustainability.

The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It’ll teach you something, it’ll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.

The Story Of Stuff

At the end of the short video she does explain intervene with our system in crisis by not bumping against limits. If you have having a difficult time conscience consuming then I suggest you take a look at Material World: A Global Family Portrait.

Material World

This books takes a unique perspective on the amount of Materials we own compared to the “statistically average” families in other country’s. After the photographers spent one week living with each family, learning about their work, their attitudes toward their possessions, and their hopes for the future, they took picture outside the dwelling, surrounded by all their (many or few) material goods.
This book has amazing photographs and is definitely worth taking a look at.

This is all great stuff for Earth Day. Even Google can’t wait for Earth Day. Check out some of the cool features they added to Google Earth 4.3 for Earth Day!

  • New Navigation
  • More and Faster Rendering 3D Buildings
  • Sun Control so you can view Sunrise and Sunset
  • Street View
  • Displays Imagery Acquisition Date so you know when the picture was taken
  • 12 New Languages

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So what are you going to do for Earth Day? Let the world know!

Bernie - “I will convert light bulbs to energy efficients ones, and take cold showers after my runs.”







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