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New York’s First Ebola Case? Doctor Treating Ebola Patients In Guinea Rushed To Bellevue Hosptial | Zero Hedge
New York’s First Ebola Case? Doctor Treating Ebola Patients In Guinea Rushed To Bellevue Hosptial | Zero Hedge. Just when you thought it was safe to assume that Ebola-in-America was fixed (one day into Ron Klain’s tenure as Ebola Czar), NYPost reports some rather disquieting news. A New York City doctor – who returned from treating Ebola patients […]
Letter to the PM outlining how 2°C demands an 80% cut in EU emissions by 2030
Letter to the PM outlining how 2°C demands an 80% cut in EU emissions by 2030 Below is an open letter (22nd Oct. 2014) to both the UK’s Prime Minister and the Secretary of State at the Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC). The letter summarises why the IPCC’s carbon budgets for a “likely” chance of not […]
Achieving Sustainable Societies: Lessons from Modelling the Ancient Maya | Solutions
Achieving Sustainable Societies: Lessons from Modelling the Ancient Maya | Solutions. In BriefThe ancient Maya provide an example of a complex social-ecological system which developed impressively before facing catastrophic reorganization. In order for our contemporary globally-connected society to avoid a similar fate, we aim to learn how the ancient Maya system functioned, and whether it […]
EU Braces for Battle to Set Energy Goals for Next Decade – Bloomberg
EU Braces for Battle to Set Energy Goals for Next Decade – Bloomberg. European Union leaders face heated negotiations today on a deal to toughen emission-reduction policies in the next decade and boost the security of energy supplies amid a natural-gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine. The main challenge for the 28 heads of government will be […]
Overpopulation behind climate change and peak oil — Transition Voice
Overpopulation behind climate change and peak oil — Transition Voice. Garrett Hardin was a lad who not only thought a lot, but could also think well. I recently discovered a Hardin book I had not heard of, The Ostrich Factor: Our Population Myopia (1998). Hardin was an interesting blend of an ecological conservative, and a growth-hating political […]
Inspiring New Film, “Voices of Transition,” on the Agriculture That We Need | David Bollier
Inspiring New Film, “Voices of Transition,” on the Agriculture That We Need | David Bollier. How will agriculture have to change if we are going to successfully navigate past Peak Oil and address climate change? A new film documentary, Voices of Transition, provides plenty of answers from Transition-oriented farmers in France, Great Britain and Cuba. Produced […]
Fracking Ban Ballot Initiatives Intensify » EcoWatch
Fracking Ban Ballot Initiatives Intensify » EcoWatch. County ballot issues to ban fracking could have a large impact outside those counties. And the campaign money being spent on both sides—but primarily by big energy companies—shows how much is at stake. The oilfields of Kern County, California, are already seeing a fracking boom. Nearby San Benito and Santa […]
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Will the U.S. Go to “War” Against Ebola? | TomDispatch
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Will the U.S. Go to “War” Against Ebola? | TomDispatch. Sometimes, if you want to catch the essence of a moment, however, grim, you need to turn tohumor. Recently, the New Yorker’s resident satirist Andy Borowitz produced one of his patented fake news stories that began this way: “The president of CNN Worldwide, Jeff Zucker, […]
Remembering Rick Piltz, Who Fought Government Suppression of Science – The Intercept
Remembering Rick Piltz, Who Fought Government Suppression of Science – The Intercept. Rick Piltz, a climate change whistleblower, died this weekend of cancer. Piltz revealed in 2005 that the Bush administration was revising supposedly scientific reports to cast doubt on the existence of human-caused climate change. He leaked copies of the edited documents toThe New York Times, after resigning […]
UN officials ‘shocked’ by Detroit’s mass water shutoffs | Al Jazeera America
UN officials ‘shocked’ by Detroit’s mass water shutoffs | Al Jazeera America. Surrounded by a frenzy of cameras, Detroit resident Rochelle McCaskill explained her predicament to a team of United Nations officials on Sunday: The numbers simply didn’t add up. Out of her $672 monthly disability check, McCaskill spends $600 rent, she said, leaving her […]
The Krugman Function Part 2–Whole System Thinking – Transition Milwaukee
The Krugman Function Part 2–Whole System Thinking – Transition Milwaukee. Whole System Thinking Anyone who has spent much time thinking about ecology, peak oil and the economy, or global carbon emissions with any degree of complexity understands the importance of whole-system thinking. Whole-system thinking reminds us that our economy cannot be intelligently assessed without an […]
Homeland Security To Restrict West Africa Travelers Entry To America | Zero Hedge
Homeland Security To Restrict West Africa Travelers Entry To America | Zero Hedge. While President Obama has declared his experts say banning travel from the Ebola-stricken West African nations is not the optimal route to stopping the deadly virus’ spread in the US, Homeland Security has a different plan as Rep. John Conyers comments: *U.S. […]
Divestiture is nothing but a distraction | Ensia
Divestiture is nothing but a distraction | Ensia. As a college president and chemist, I have worked throughout my career in areas connected to climate change. As an educator, I have written chemistry textbooks and regularly teach courses in which the most urgent issue is climate change. As a president, I frequently face decisions about […]
California on the Brink: 14 Rural Communities Are Now Facing Water Depletion | The Daily Sheeple
California on the Brink: 14 Rural Communities Are Now Facing Water Depletion | The Daily Sheeple. Nestled in the mountains of California, is the infamous tourist destination of Bodie. Once a thriving gold mining town, it is now an empty shell of its former self. As soon as the gold depleted in the early 20th […]
