I delivered powerful words to the Sterling College graduating class of 2016 on May 7. I spoke on the need for climate leadership in the 21st century in order to have a graduating class in 2116. I mentioned how the climate change movement is for everyone and that we must act now. I emphasized the […]
An interesting question is, what are you waiting for? Global warming is the biggest problem we’ve ever faced as a civilization—certainly you want to act to slow it down, but perhaps you’ve been waiting for just the right moment. © Prashanth Vishwanathan / Greenpeace The moment when, oh, marine biologists across the Pacific begin weeping […]
Could Iowa City one day join Copenhagen, Vancouver, Amsterdam, San Francisco and other climate action champions as one of the greenest cities in the world? Declaring that cities must place “climate action as a central priority in strategic planning,” Iowa City Mayor Jim Throgmorton issued a “Regenerative City Day” proclamation on Tuesday at the Iowa […]
Colorado’s high court today struck down the rights of Coloradans to enact local fracking bans. It’s no surprise, given the massive sway of the oil and gas industry in the state. The suit was brought against Longmont (which passed a popular fracking ban in 2012) by Gov. John Hickenlooper and his industry cronies. While it’s […]
Since April 2014, 10 fracking infrastructure projects have been canceled or delayed. Here’s the list: April 2014: The Bluegrass Pipeline in Kentucky was stopped by a court decision upholding landowners’ rights against the use of eminent domain to take their land for private profit. November 2015: The Port Ambrose liquified natural gas (LNG) project was vetoed by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. The […]
Imagine if scientists came up with an inexpensive, easily administered way to decrease the risk of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, stroke and obesity by 25 to 35 percent. It would create a sensation and, if patented, would be worth billions. But there’s already a free and simple way to achieve this: exercise. The human body […]
April 26 marks the 30th anniversary of the catastrophic explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. It comes as Germany, which is phasing out all its reactors, has asked Belgium to shut two of its nukes because of the threat of terrorism. It also comes as advancing efficiencies and plunging prices in renewable energy remind […]
Even the normally cautious Guardian enthused about the signal of global seriousness about climate change evidenced by a record 170 nations signing the Paris accord on a single day and emerging hopes that enough nations might ratify by the end of this year to bring the accord into legal effect four years earlier than originally […]
Gary Krause was mystified by an unusual fish he caught in his trawl net off BC’s Pacific north coast in October. It was a Pacific electric ray, named for a pair of organs behind its head that can knock a human adult down with a powerful sho Trawl fishery records show 88 of these rays […]
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