10 Controversial Climate Change Fixes to Spark Discussion—From Wired.com

Welcome to Thrilling Heroics: a personal and career development site for college students and young professionals! If you enjoy the site, I encourage you to leave your comments and consider subscribing to future articles. Optimize your Life, Rock your Career, and Make the World your Playground!It’s been a long time since I wrote about sustainability, [...]

An Interview with Duff McDuffee of Falling Fruit TV

Today I have the opportunity to share a fascinating interview with a young businessman that is helping to change the world for the better! Duff McDuffee is an inspiring jack-of-all-trades. He is co-founder of Falling Fruit TV, a conscious online media company, as well as a deeply passionate philosopher, life coach, and yogin. His work [...]

Veganism and Sustainability, Part II

Contributed by Jaime McKibben.
Veganism and Sustainability continued
In part one I discussed the frightening ways that livestock production destroys our planet. To understand the full situation I suggest reading part one.
Many people are under the false impression that eating fish is not harmful to the environment. For starters, entire coral reefs are blown with dynamite to [...]

Veganism and Sustainability, Part I

Today’s guest post is authored by my sister Jaime McKibben. Jaime’s a student at Chico State, an actress, and self-described health food fanatic. She has studied nutrition and sustainability and advocates vegetarian and vegan diets. She will present a different perspective for many readers of THRILLINGheroics, however it is interesting to see her arguments for [...]

Using Smoke and Mirrors to Confound the Audience

It is SO sad to see politicians appropriating environmental causes for their hidden agendas, with the cooperation and support of sincere conservancy organizations. I recieved this press release last week from the American Bird Conservancy:
Wind Energy Regulations Needed to Protect Birds
The U.S. House of Representatives’ Natural Resources Committee held a hearing May 23 on H.R. [...]

The Last Thrill

According to the Urban Monk, the blogosphere is coming to an end. If I had just one last post, what would it be? What would I say…to you guys…my audience…
I was thinking about what’s most important to me yesterday–what I’m most passionate about–”why do I spend so much time researching and writing about this stuff?” [...]