Join Mario Batali – Skip Eating Meat Once a Week

by Global Patriot 09.03.2011

If you happened to read our last blog post: What Did Your Steak Have For Dinner? you may be considering a reduction in your meat consumption.  That’s becoming a popular trend these days for improving one’s personal health, as well as respecting the planet, and famous chef and author Mario Batali has recenlty joined the [...]

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What Did Your Steak Have For Dinner?

by Global Patriot 08.30.2011

While non-vegetarians tend to consume a variety of animals that live on the land, swim in our lakes, streams and oceans, or spend much of their time in the sky, it’s the noble cow which remains most closely associated with American meat-eaters, with visions of cowboys riding the range at dusk firmly ingrained in our [...]

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Bill McKibben – Making a Life on Planet Eaarth

by Global Patriot 08.20.2011

The last ice age ended around 13,000 years ago, allowing humankind to extend our reach across the globe and create the incredibly complex and diverse planet we now inhabit.  During the first few millenniums after the last glacial maximum, temperatures increased, ice sheets melted, ocean levels rose and vegetation proliferated, but for the past 10,000 [...]

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Taproot Foundation Fosters Pro Bono Volunteerism

by Global Patriot 08.13.2011

When we think of someone volunteering for a nonprofit, a typical image which comes to mind involves an individual working in a homeless shelter or digging a well in Africa, taking a position on the front line to help those in dire need.  But all nonprofits need help with infrastructure too: marketing, computers, human resources [...]

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Google Promoting Local Sustainable Seafood

by Global Patriot 08.05.2011

Seems I’m constantly on Google when researching an upcoming Global Patriot blog post, and those of you who are long time readers know that I’ll often write about sustainability issues, but I had never put the two subjects together until I read a post entitled: Gone Fishin’ – Piloting Community Supported Fisheries at Google. While [...]

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Can B Corporations Inspire Sustainability?

by Global Patriot 07.16.2011

I’ve always been a big supporter of capitalism.  In tandem with democracy it can be a powerful force for improving society as a whole and empowering individuals to fulfill their dreams and benefit the world.  But…and this is a very big but…when a lust for power or addiction to wealth take hold, the general public [...]

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