by David Sasaki | Dec 1, 2009 | English
I’m not a religious person. I’m probably too individualistic, skeptical, rebellious, and contrarian for any kind of dogma, hierarchy, or groupthink. Also, I spend more time each month thinking about how I want my burger cooked than if god exists. On the...
by David Sasaki | Nov 30, 2009 | English
From the latest Rising Voices newsletter. Did you know that the Canadian coal mining company Teck Resources is planning on increasing its production from 1.5 million to 8 million tons every year at he Ovoot Tolgoi mine, an open-pit coal mine in southern Mongolia? The...
by David Sasaki | Dec 5, 2008 | English, South Africa 2008
Optimal Energy CEO Kobus Meiring Presenting the Joule Electric Car Who Killed the Electric Car? is a 2006 documentary which shows the roles of American automobile manufacturers, the oil industry, and the US government in stopping production of electric cars in the US,...
by David Sasaki | Nov 26, 2008 | English
Greetings from Cape Town, South Africa. I am here thanks to a blog post by Matthew Buckland, a comment left by Mohamed Nanabhay, and the kind invitation of Simon Barber of the International Marketing Council of South Africa. Starting on November 30 I will be part of a...
by David Sasaki | Mar 13, 2005 | English, Globalization, Politics
It’s Sunday morning … and true to the name, the sunlight, roughly eight minutes after leaving its home, is blasting furiously outside. So is the wind. And my honey and I are taking refuge from both in the cool shade of our upstairs bedroom. What are we...