The scoop on Fair Trade. 

Drinking Coffee Can Build Communities, but Only with a Fair Trade
Purchases are more than finding the best buy and in an age of informed, aware consumers it's now an ethical choice

 and then the Follow up...

Java Justice: Fair Trade Coffee and Cutting Out the Coyotes
An article of mine about Coffee generated the same curiosity I see in coffeeshops when someone says "Fair Trade." One reader asked how exactly does cutting middleman out of the supply chain provide coffee farmers more income through fair trade?

In Garret Hardin's influential work The Tragedy of the Commons is a framework that takes on critical proportions with the "common" use of Oil. The question is how will civilization react to the depletion of something fundamental to survival as we know it.

Read:  The Tragedy of Oil and Garret Hardin

Oil news headlines strike fear into the wallets of world's gas guzzling nations. What can be done to save us from Peak Oil, Oil Embargos, an Energy Crises, Global Warming, Rising Gas Prices, Outrageous Heating Bills, seeping into everyday life?

Read: Local Solutions in Sustainability to a Global Energy Problem 

Fossil Fuels give industrialized nations a false sense of security and power, antagonistic to ecological and humanitarian sustainability. Pub Crawl to the Desert is an elaborated analogy about the public perception of Oil and its greedy reality.

Read: Foreign Policy and Oil Reserves: An Oil Analogy of Fear, Greed and Beer

• As the world grows increasingly demanding and complex, how will the concept of God change? To pose the question of is there a God, or belief in God, is loaded rhetorically. Instead of debate, communication must form an attempt at a middle ground of truth.

Read the full article: The Future of God

What does the word God mean to you? 

Bog & The Homo Loquax

• Bog is just an eemya anyway, just a slovo that we horn about in radosty or strack. A zvook that rolls off the old yahzick, but do we really pony the messel of it's meaning? Say What? Read more »