The Reluctant Environmentalist

Blogging about Earth-friendly living at Fairfield University

Archive for January, 2009

Post #25: Top-Down and Grassroots-Up

Monday, January 26th, 2009 Posted in Basic Green, Green Acts | No Comments »


January 26, 2009 Have you been reading the news lately? Obama has been President less than a week, and already he’s doing good things for the environment. Daniel Weiss, director of climate strategy at the Center for American progress, praised Obama’s memo today ...

Post #24: The Greenness of Hope

Monday, January 19th, 2009 Posted in Basic Green, Green Acts | No Comments »


January 19, 2009 Happy Martin Luther King Day. Starting tomorrow, with the Obama Presidency, we’ll forget the color of our skin and focus on the greenness of our character—as Martin Luther King might say. In other words, it looks as if the Obama ...

Post # 23: Recycle, Re-use, and now, REDUCE: Paperless Courses

Sunday, January 11th, 2009 Posted in Basic Green, Green Acts | No Comments »


January 12, 2009 Recycle: Lots of our blogposts last year were about recycling.  More to come! A website about an ultimate Marathon Recycler  was just sent to me by Colleen Barker, Fairfield employee and local mom.  This is a guy in Los Angeles ...