Voices from the Flats – Earth Day

Earth Day – time to invest in sustainable future By Rick Steiner ———————- Today is Earth Day: a good time to assess the condition of our life-sustaining home planet. On this, there is both good and bad news. The bad news is that the global environment continues to deteriorate. For decades, our “ecological footprint” – the environmental impact of the global economy – has exceeded what the Earth can sustainably provide, now by over 50%, and our ecological debt is growing. Today more than a billion people are malnourished, thousands of children will die from preventable causes, and we will…