This guest post comes from Bill in Laurel, Maryland, who has been doing occasional posts highlighting changes in the Arctic. Okay, now on to this week’s news. The international study of the Arctic still goes on, despite our economic troubles. At the North Pole in April 2010, two buoys with weather instruments were launched. They’re […]
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News from the Arctic: 27 June 2010
June 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Tags: analysis · climate change · environmental · Global Warming
George Will’s next column won’t deal with a simple reality: Washington is wilting while the Arctic is melting
June 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Simply put, Washington, DC, weather is miserable at this time. It feels like the middle of August, at the moment, with temperatures nearing 100 degree with very high humidity. Life for many: air conditioned house to air conditioned car to air conditioned office, with too much sweat in the seconds moving from one air-conditioned space […]
Tags: climate change · environmental · George Will · Global Warming · Washington Post
“All costs, no benefits …”
June 16th, 2010 · 2 Comments
The EPA has issued its analysis of the financial and economic impacts of the Kerry-Lieberman American Power Act. The bumper sticker summary of their (fundamentally flawed) analysis: action to mitigate climate change is affordable. Sadly, however, the EPA has continued the strong economic tradition of robust analysis of costs of action with dramatic understating of […]
Tags: analysis · climate change · environmental · Global Warming
Solar Cooking at the Farmers Market
June 7th, 2010 · Comments Off on Solar Cooking at the Farmers Market
If embraced, solar cooking has the potential for providing a meaningful Silver BB in the fight to mitigate climate change, in the struggle to reduce health damage from polluting cooking (such as wood or coal burning in inadequately vented homes), and aiding economic strengthening for some of the world’s poorest people (reducing costs (both monetary […]
Tags: eco-friendly · Energy · energy smart · environmental · green
Reducing School Cafeteria Waste
June 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment
What follows is a very practical discussion of how to help move ‘green’ incrementally into America’s primary school cafeterias from the perspective of a ‘green’ parent in Virginia. I was recently a guest blogger on Mrs. Q’s “Fed Up with School Kunch” blog and cross-posted here to gain a larger audience. Here’s the original blog […]
Tags: environmental · green · guest post · schools
80 by 2050 … An inadequate minimum … And the wrong thing to discuss
June 2nd, 2010 · Comments Off on 80 by 2050 … An inadequate minimum … And the wrong thing to discuss
Looking 40 years out is difficult for most of us and developing effective policy taking 40 years in the future seriously is difficult for most political institutions. Manana … demain … tomorrow … later … putting off action is natural for us procrastinators. (Note: roughly 20 percent of Americans self-identify as “chronic procrastinators and it […]
Tags: climate change · environmental · Global Warming · politics
A window on some of coal’s dirtiest secrets …
May 24th, 2010 · 2 Comments
The Institute for Southern Studies provides consistently top flight reporting in its online journal, Facing South, related, to among other things, energy practices in the south that create significant questions of environmental justice and polluting energy practices that threaten the health of all Southerners (actually, all Americans). As the nation’s attention (okay, not enough of […]
Tags: coal · Energy · environmental
Stealing The Work Of A Better Blogger & Calling It My Own
May 18th, 2010 · 7 Comments
This guest post from WarrenS provides a template for the commendable work that he has been doing to seek to illuminate climate and energy issues for newspaper readers across the country. One of the things, by the way, that WarrenS doesn’t mention is that his pieces fall into a context: even if he is not […]
Tags: climate change · Energy · environmental · Global Warming · journalism
What I want, and don’t want, to see on my next trip to a major aquarium …
May 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Despite the horrific nature of the massive man-made volcano of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, the utter absence of discussion of the evolving disaster in work and social environments has been a striking contrast to the virtual blogosphere world. Not once this month, without my starting the conversation, has Gulf oil been discussed: even […]
Tags: environmental · oil · OilApocalypse · oilpocalyse · political symbols · pollution
A first glance at Kerry-put your name here-Lieberman American Power Act
May 11th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Senators Kerry and Lieberman are, as is understood, planning to release the American Power Act Wednesday morning. Initial material has ‘leaked’, including a two-page summary (graciously transcribed from a pdf version to text by the Wonkroom) and a 21 page section-by-section “for staff use only” available on the Washington Post website. By my nature, I […]
Tags: american power act · climate legislation · Energy · environmental