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The Globe faces many challenges, that intersect in very complex system-of-system ways.  There are no Single Shot/Silver Bullet solutions out there. But, in some ways, there are solution sets that provide an integrated solution set that make them a potentially valuable Silver BB. Our challenges include Peak Oil, Global Warming, clean water constraints, food supply […]

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Do you remember Kermit and “It is hard being Green” … well, many people do … and, well, many people think that way. Truth be told, it is a lot easier being green (or at least green hued) than many people realize. We need to work to make sure that our next President is our […]

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Every Progressive should recognize and incorporate, deep in their soul, the plain fact:  Peak and Global Warming are the most serious threats to Progressive ideals, concepts, policies, and aspirations through the 21st century … AND today. These are not just let’s wait until tomorrow issues, that should be put in the back of the line […]

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Last night, writing about the Bizaare Weather … around the Globe, I emphasized a line from Mike Tidwell, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, that there is Just No Normal Weather Anymore, Anywhere. Well, perhaps I should have opened the Washington Post yesterday, which had the story Across Globe, Extremes of Heat and Rain.  This points to […]

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Grist is running a series on the 2008 Presidential candidates and the environment.  They are taking a look at their positions on environmental issues, with a special focus on climate and energy. How Green is Your Candidate?

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Front-page of the Metro section is not where readers typical turn to a tall tale suitable for the fiction section, something with an “H” for Horror. In With Close Contacts, Md. Wind Project Gets Boost, Post readers discover that a well-connected industrialist (Goliath) has run roughshod over concerned environmentalists (the David) through a legislative end […]

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We each have heroes in our lives, some quite personal and close, others remote to us.  Some to whom we can attached face and powerful emotion, others to whom our respect is a less tangible relationship. For me, those who serve for a greater good, often anonymously, often at great personal sacrifice are a form […]

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One key challenge related to Peak Oil is whether we’ll know it any other way than looking in the rear mirror.  At this time, in addition to hard numbers about falling productivity at key oil fields, oil discoveries continually being outpaced by usage, and questions about reserves, what the world (or at least the small […]

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