Have you or someone you love been affected by Irene, the storm flooding New York City that prompted the almost unthinkable closure of its massive transit system? How about the record-breaking
Entries Tagged as 'global warming'
How Open To Change Are You?
August 28th, 2011 · 3 Comments · global warming and climate change
Tags: change·climate change·climate refugees·developed world·extreme weather·global warming·Irene·NASA Goddard Space Flight Center·National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration
Chicago’s Vulnerability
July 23rd, 2009 · 5 Comments · community, energy, entertainment, food & drink, home & garden, lifestyle, money, sustainability, transportation
I’m writing from Chicago, where the BlogHer conference I’m attending will start tomorrow. My run on the lakeshore last night took me to Millenium Park, where I had another of my little ecstatic, falling-in-love experiences, between the gardens, the symphony orchestra playing in the outdoor pavilion, and most of all, the unique fountain and wading [...]
Tags: Bill McKibben·BlogHer conference·carbon footprint·Chicago·chickens·climate change·culture·Deep Economy·Detroit·fun·global warming·happiness·Millenium Park·papalars·urban farming
The Psychology Of Naysayers On Global Warming
July 19th, 2009 · 16 Comments · sustainability
I embrace differences of opinion. Democracy is based on it, and we make each other smarter and stronger when we exchange views. However, for a literate person in 2009 to claim that human-caused global warming is not a reality is akin to a literate person in 1859 claiming slavery in the South was not a [...]
Tags: Bill Bigelow·climate change·denial·Exxon-Mobil·global warming·IPCC·ODD·Portland·psychology
Self-Reliance Versus Government Control
July 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment · sustainability
One of my readers, Bryce Beattie of Real Self-Reliance, has written a thoughtful response to my criticism of legislators opposing the Waxman-Markey bill. This bill is known as the carbon cap and trade bill; it narrowly passed the House last week by getting some bipartisan support, and will be facing much opposition in the Senate. [...]
Tags: bipartisan politics·Bryce Beattie·carbon footprint·climate change·global warming·government control·Jared Diamond·self-reliance·Waxman-Markey bill
The Climate Doesn’t Play Politics
June 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment · sustainability
Nobel laureate Paul Krugman writes today in the New York Times that the opposition of much of Congress to the Waxman-Markey bill is treason and betrayal. If it passes, this bill will be our nation’s first legislative response to global warming. The House narrowly passed Waxman-Markey last Friday, and it now goes to the Senate, [...]
Tags: bipartisan politics·climate change·ExxonMobil·global warming·paradigm shift·Paul Krugman·Waxman-Markey bill
House Votes on Carbon Cap & Trade Bill This Friday
June 24th, 2009 · No Comments · politics, sustainability
Thor Hinckley, manager of the nation’s leading renewable power program, supplied this guest post. Thor is my husband. To quote from Nobel laureate Al Gore: “For those who care about the global warming catastrophe — this is the moment”. The Waxman-Markey legislation known as the Carbon Cap and Trade bill is coming up for a [...]
Tags: Al Gore·bipartisan politics·cap and trade bill·carbon footprint·climate change·global warming·Repower America·Waxman-Markey bill
Run 7 On 7 Wins Diamond-Cut Carat Award
May 5th, 2009 · No Comments · sustainability
I’ve named Linda Quirk, the marathon-running founder of Run 7 On 7, as the first winner of the Diamond-Cut Carat Award, for making a change toward sustainability. As her website illustrates, Ms. Quirk responded to a challenge to offset the carbon emissions created by her air travel to seven continents by donating to the Carbon [...]
Tags: carbon footprint·climate change·global warming·Linda Quirk·outdoors·Run 7 On 7
The Choices We Do And Don’t Have
April 6th, 2009 · 2 Comments · energy, sustainability
The new Grist site has an article titled Myth: Using Less Energy = Sacrifice. Its author David Roberts is saying what mainstream culture wants to hear: no discomfort at hand as we deal with global warming. No lifestyle changes needed. I know many progressive people, smart people, who promote this viewpoint. And I understand that [...]
Tags: change·climate change·culture·David Roberts·global warming·Grist·oil
The Fun of Being In Training
March 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment · community, energy, home & garden, lifestyle, simplicity, sustainability, transportation
Some mornings I write briefly (before dashing off to meet the vanpool) about something that’s been cooking in my mind for some time. This is one of those mornings, and what’s been cooking in my mind is the now fully-baked conviction that we’re in training. Whether here in Oregon or all over the U.S. and [...]
Tags: Diamond-Cut Life·fun·global warming·green living·happiness·Mount Tabor·Oregon·right livelihood
Capitol Climate Action A Success
March 4th, 2009 · No Comments · sustainability
The largest act of civil disobedience against climate change in U.S. history took place in the nation’s Capitol in frigid, snowy weather on March 2. More than 2,000 people marched, and many risked arrest by blocking all four entrances to the coal-fired Capitol Power Plant. Time magazine gave it serious coverage among other mainstream media; [...]
Tags: activism·climate change·coal·coal plants·global warming·social justice
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