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This guest post from DWG provides a window as to how Global Warming is impacting and is reflected in one of the world’s oldest agricultural luxuries with, as well, some of the most extensive and detailed records related to harvests and weather. As I wrote several years ago in Sipping our way to a warmer […]

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Mike Tidwell, impassioned director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, crossed a Rubicon. Faced with weather shocks knocking out electricity and Republican political ascendancy seeking to knock truth out of public discourse, Tidwell is “changing his life again.” As Mike put it in a Washington Post OPED today, I’m not a survivalist or an “end […]

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This guest post by Deborah Phelan brings food to the table — where it should be — for discussion. In ranking climate change last month as the highest risk facing the World in 2011, the WEF glitterati meeting at Davos also connected the proverbial dots between climate change and economic disparity (ranked 3), extreme weather […]

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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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This guest post from Michael Conrad provides thoughts from a self-proclaimed “far from expert” perspective on how to tackle engaging with climate change denial. The Koch Brothers’ retreat, combined with the GOP going all out to block any environmentally responsible action has done a good job of reminding progressives of urgent need for campaign finance […]

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“We think what we can be is the canary in the coal mine,” Republican Representative Darryl Issa told reporters. Congressman Issa’s words are prophetic — evidently he and his colleagues consider themselves to be the ‘canaries in the coal mine’ since they are taking steps with the newly introduced Continuing Resolution to kill off as […]

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This guest post comes from Erich Pica, President of Friends of the Earth. Erich layouts the painful case of a Republican politician sacrificing knowledge for ideological pandering. Sadly, pandering to Koch Brother backed anti-science attitudes isn’t limited to Upton. We all know a Fred Upton. He’s the coworker who was your friend until he got […]

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When it comes to security planning one of the oldest adages is “Plan for the worst, hope for the best.” For example, in the business management real, IT managers plan need to plan and prepare for back-ups of all data in the event of catastrophic failure of the main system. This adage certainly has its […]

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This guest post from Veritas Curat (“the truth cures”) merits reading …  As currently structured, economics tell us that “the Earth’s not worth saving. “Socialism collapsed because it did not allow prices to tell the economic truth. Capitalism may collapse because it does not allow prices to tell the ecological truth.” – Oystein Dahle, former […]

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