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, [...]

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 [...]

Interview: David Anderson, Founder and CEO of Green Options

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 [...]

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?” [...]

SMUD Leads the Nation with Consumer Renewable Energy Program

My good friend Steve Gorlick recently came across a popular green energy program in my hometown of Sacramento.
Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) is offering one of the nation’s largest and easiest renewable home energy programs. SMUD’s “Greenergy” program is certified by the Green-e Renewable Electricity Certification Program, and offers either a 50% option ($3/month) or [...]