What follows is a guest post (the quotation material), with some commentary, from Stranded Wind who has a major focus on finding routes for solutions and opportunities amid the perfect storm of economic problems, peak oil (and other resource constraints), and global warming. One of the streams of discussion, with various degrees of urgency and […]
Entries Tagged as 'environmental'
The American Dream … Time for a Redefinition?
September 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Tags: analysis · catastrophic climate change · climate change · Energy · environmental · Global Warming
Offsetting problems …
September 10th, 2009 · 3 Comments
Carbon offsets should trouble anyone concerned about climate change. Whether on a personal, business, or community/nation level, even when they work, they act almost as a form of indulgence: paying someone else resources as a means to make up for your own failures and problem creation. As we consider climate change challenges, this sort of […]
Tags: climate change · environmental · Global Warming
Experiencing the Rape of the World …
August 28th, 2009 · Comments Off on Experiencing the Rape of the World …
Having watched this awhile ago, listening to Tracy Chapman earlier today reminded me of this … Take the time to watch with me.
Tags: climate change · Energy · environmental
Earth has been many, many planets over the eons
July 19th, 2009 · Comments Off on Earth has been many, many planets over the eons
This is a guest post from by PhotogHog, who made this thoughtful comment in response to (as part of the conversation with) Stranded Wind’s discussion Contemplating Human Extinction. The Earth is ancient far beyond the understanding of most people. There have been giant continents, populated repeatedly with immense herds of large animals, innumerable deadly carnivores, […]
Tags: environmental
Bridging a Black-White Divide: Kudos to NWF and NAACP
July 14th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Let’s face facts, to far too many, for far too long, “environmentalism” has seemed a lilly-white activity, something for people with enough resources to engage in caring about the environment. And, in some ways, there is some truth to this perspective. As Jerome Ringo put it in I joined the Louisian WIldlife Federation in 1991. […]
Tags: climate change · environmental · environmental justice · Global Warming
What about President Obama’s Drinking Problem?
July 6th, 2009 · 4 Comments
According to the Washington Post, Barack Obama has a serious problem: he is too perfect. Thus, there is much press attention searching for Obama’s character flaws, ever more diligently focusing on Obama’s cigarette usage rather than asking probing questions at press conferences on irrelevancies like energy policy. Considering the fact that the last President was […]
Tags: barack obama · environmental · water
Acting on Climate = Benefits, not costs
June 30th, 2009 · 6 Comments
Amid many frustrations re the American Climate Energy & Security (ACES) Act (climate legislation), it is like listening to fingernails on a chalkboard when people say “it will only cost X” (“just a postage stamp a day”). There is celebratory discussion of CBO and EPA numbers showing very low costs, seemingly useful to counter R […]
Tags: climate change · climate legislation · environmental · Global Warming · political symbols · politics
Setting a limit … and fighting for it: 350.org and an October engagement
June 17th, 2009 · Comments Off on Setting a limit … and fighting for it: 350.org and an October engagement
350 … it is the most important number … Book yourself, your friends, your neighbors, your community for 24 October.
Tags: Bill McKibben · climate change · environmental · Global Warming
Not even a rubber mallet? Do “Climate Change Leaders” know how to play hardball?
June 17th, 2009 · 4 Comments
When contemplating the path of climate legislation over the past several years, we must address a continual question and challenge for those (which should be all of us) concerned that our political system is proving unable to come up with a policy and regulatory framework that provides any real hope for putting us (the United […]
Tags: Al Gore · analysis · climate change · climate delayers · climate legislation · Congress · democrats · environmental · Global Warming · government energy policy · politics
Keeping Score: Questions about CBO’s ACES Scoring
June 9th, 2009 · Comments Off on Keeping Score: Questions about CBO’s ACES Scoring
Last Friday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) release their financial “scoring” of the draft Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act (note: pdf). CBO’s analysis projects, through its first decade, that the Federal Government will bring in $845.6 billion in revenue with $821.2 billion in additional expenditures, meaning that the US Treasury would see […]
Tags: analysis · cap and trade · Congress · emissions · environmental · Global Warming