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Cities Are Finally Treating Water as a Resource, Not a Nuisance
Cities Are Finally Treating Water as a Resource, Not a Nuisance From Houston to Melbourne, the surprising ways urban areas are dealing with water woes Memorial Day barbecues and parades were thwarted this year in Houston when a massive storm dumped more than 10 inches of rain in two days, creating a Waterworld of flooded […]
Resilience in the face of Climate Change
Resilience in the face of Climate Change Resilience is a common principal of permaculture, says Dave Boehnlein, co-author of the book Practical Permaculture. In this Mother Earth News interview, Boehnlein stresses the importance of incorporating redundancy, such as with planning access to potable water. “If the water stops coming from a municipal system, then what’s […]
Field Notes to Life During the Apocalypse
Field Notes to Life During the Apocalypse Shell’s Arctic drilling rig. Photo: Greenpeace. When the apocalypse arrived no one knew it could be so seductive. In the Pacific Northwest global warming has meant winter days fit for lounging outside in t-shirts. Wildfires feeding on drought-stricken forests are producing surreal tangerine-orange sunlight. The heat has wreaked havoc […]
The 2030 Agenda: This Month The UN Launches A Blueprint For A New World Order With The Help Of The Pope
The 2030 Agenda: This Month The UN Launches A Blueprint For A New World Order With The Help Of The Pope Did you know that the UN is planning to launch a “new universal agenda” for humanity in September 2015? That phrase does not come from me – it is actually right in the very first […]
Hundreds Rally in Alaska to Tell Obama ‘Climate Leaders Don’t Drill the Arctic’
Hundreds Rally in Alaska to Tell Obama ‘Climate Leaders Don’t Drill the Arctic’ Climate groups rallied in Anchorage, Alaska yesterday to demand that the U.S. government, President Obama and Alaskan leaders take the urgent action needed to stop climate change. The “Rally to Confront the Glacial Pace of Political Action” took place as President Obama met with ministers from around the world […]
Will This Be Remembered as The Summer North Americans Woke Up to Climate Change?
Will This Be Remembered as The Summer North Americans Woke Up to Climate Change? Smokey haze, intense heat, encampments of evacuated residents next to the highway: these were the conditions that greeted Renee Lertzman when she recently drove through Oregon. It’s no wonder why the environmental psychology researcher and professor resorts to the term “apocalyptic” to describe […]
Change Everything or Face A Global Katrina
Change Everything or Face A Global Katrina (Photo: Eric Gay/AP) For me, the road to This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate begins in a very specific time and place. The time was exactly ten years ago. The place was New Orleans, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The road in question was flooded and littered with bodies. […]
Long Time Coming, Long Time Gone
Long Time Coming, Long Time Gone Puyé Cliff dwellings, Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico. On the day Pope Francis released his encyclical on the fate of the Earth, I was struggling to climb a near vertical cliff on the Parajito Plateau of northern New Mexico. My fingers gripped tightly to handholds notched into the rocks […]
Co-operatives Need to Confront Climate Chaos
Co-operatives Need to Confront Climate Chaos The challenges for 2015 are the same ones we’ve failed as a movement to find solutions to, or even act on, for a very long time: climate change and the neoliberal politics of austerity. The co-operative movement needs to work internationally to stop oil companies extracting, and governments and […]
A Tragic Scenario: Narrowly Cast
A Tragic Scenario: Narrowly Cast Book Review: The Collapse of Western Civilization The Climate Conundrum The anthropogenic roots of climate change have long been clear, and the dangers of inaction can be seen in melting glaciers and increasingly frequent extreme weather events. We already know how to solve the problem—rapidly scaling up to 100% renewables, increasing […]
The Anthropocene and Ozymandias
The Anthropocene and Ozymandias Much has been made lately of the so-called Anthropocene — the idea that Homo sapiens has so taken over and modified Earth that we need a new name for our geological age instead of the outmoded Holocene. One remorseless Anthropoceniac writes, ‘Nature is gone… You are living on a used planet. If this […]
In Northern Canada Peaks, Scientists Are Tracking Impact of Vanishing Ice
In Northern Canada Peaks, Scientists Are Tracking Impact of Vanishing Ice In the summer of 1955, a floatplane flew a small group of American climbers to the edge of a massive icefield straddling the Continental Divide along the Yukon/Northwest Territories border in northern Canada. When the group saw the cluster of jagged peaks and sheer rock […]
The Real Lesson of Katrina: the Worst is Yet to Come
The Real Lesson of Katrina: the Worst is Yet to Come Three weeks and three days before Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans 10 years ago, a paper of mine appeared in the scientific journal Nature. It showed that North Atlantic hurricane power was strongly correlated with the temperature of the tropical Atlantic during hurricane season, and that both […]
