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Simply put, Architecture 2030 (Ed Mazria) is among my favorite organizations. Architecture 2030 has been developing and promoting well-thought through and practical concepts for shifting America’s built architecture toward a sustainable path.  Concepts that have an impact on many, from aspiring architecture students to policy-makers to businessmen creating more energy efficient products. Not until today, […]

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A simple truth, anti-science suffering haters of a livable economic system have hindered action to address our mounting resource challenges of our overuse and overabuse of depletable resources. These include oil (Peak Oil), water (depleting fossil acquifers), top soil (with increasingly serious dust storms in many parts of the world hastening creation of new deserts), […]

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For a long time, I described myself as a pessimistic optimist (or an optimistic pessimist — just couldn’t remember which …). This changed recently as I learned a critical definitional issue. An optimist is assuming things will work out and it doesn’t necessarily rely on their efforts or necessarily require any special action to end […]

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This evening, NBC will broadcast Harmony. Harmony could be described, perhaps, as the Prince Charles entry into the documentary film arena, with Prince Charles narrating a discussion both of the global challenges climate change creates and providing thoughtful / meaningful paths to address these challenges to help avert catastrophic climate chaos. For decades, The Prince […]

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Warren S has made a commitment with a New Year’s Resolution. Every day, another letter to the editor or a politicians about climate change and global warming issues. One of his most recent conclusions is that the rampant inability of traditional media institutions to link global record war temperatures, the hottest year in recorded weather […]

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Under the title The Darker Side of Green, Lexus (e.g., Toyota) has chosen to host a series of “debates” on climate change as part of its roll-out of hybrid Lexus CT200h. These events are hosted by a celebrity, with an environmentalist journalist and prominent skeptic ‘debating’ climate-change issues. To debate or not to debate: that […]

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Lafeminista’s Global Warming: Are you f***ing scared yet? highlights yet another reason for grave concern about the impacts of our using the atmosphere as a trash pit: we are killing life in the ocean as Scientists have discovered that the phytoplankton of the oceans has declined by about 40 per cent over the past century, […]

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No matter the word put against it, humanity is driving change in climate and other aspects of our living space. For decades, scientists, scholars, and public opinion pollsters have sought to place a name against the phenomena. Global Warming … Climate Change … Global Change … Climate Chaos; Climate Disruption … Climate Catastrophe … Climate […]

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While remaining uncertain as to just how bad it is, the concerns that KGL will cross the line from mediocrity to counterproductive are increasing. Here is a guest post from Craig Altemose laying out how he sees that line having already passed. For the past year and a half or so, I have been largely […]

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Searching for the silver lining … perhaps Global Warming will boost drug company stock prices. The National Wildlife Federation released Extreme Allergies and Global Warming earlier today. This (extremely) well documented summary report (pdf) starkly lays out the facts: global warming will make conditions worse for allergy sufferers. In fact, while global warming has almost […]

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