Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
By Jane Poynter At a party the other day, I listened agog as a male guest said to our hostess, “Great boobs, babe!” I was thinking him dreadfully forward given the enormous diamond on the woman’s ring finger. Then I remembered – she’d just spent thousands to have them lifted. I was [...]
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Friday, December 29th, 2006
By Janne Poynter For my New Year’s Resolution I’m kicking my diet – my Doom Diet that is. I resolve not to ingest and dish out as much doom and gloom.
I’m sure the continuous intake of bad news is driving me bonkers, not to mention damaging my health. How much catastrophe can [...]
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Sunday, March 26th, 2006
By Jane Poynter
My experience living for two years sealed inside Biosphere 2 was one of being a cog in a biospheric engine. Inside our three-acre world, we could have razed our miniature rainforest, but it was patently obvious that we needed those plants for the oxygen and clean air we breathed. We watched on [...]
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Monday, March 13th, 2006
By Jane Poynter I have been wondering lately why the majority of Americans behave as if they don’t care about the environment. What does it say about us that so many Americans still drive around in gigantic SUVs (the epitome of what environmentalists consider Americans’ anti-environmental, or at least apathetic, attitude towards the environment)? Are [...]
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