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Ways to reduce and prepare for climate change, while conserving peak natural resources and preventing pollution and waste.

Hurricane Harvey, We Yawn in your Direction

By Lindsay Curren | September 7, 2017

Hurricane Irma

And Irma, we don't really give a crap about you, either. Water, Water, Everywhere Twenty-seven TRILLION gallons of water dumped on Southeast Texas in six days? That's what the various reports say. And we say, "Big whoop!" Wild-Westy, pavement-obsessedy Houston essentially destroyed, molded, and steeped in a toxic stew from chemical plants gone kablooey while the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate, Energy Tagged With: activism, clean energy, climate change, community organizing, economy, energy policy, global climate disruption, local economy, pollution, relocalization

Jill Stein’s Ridiculous Run

By Lindsay Curren | August 29, 2016

Jill Stein President

I share many of Green Party Presidential Nominee Jill Stein's values. On climate and energy, I absolutely agree that our world is in crisis and that we need some form of a "Green New Deal," though whether that would be her plan, or some other approach, is, for me, still a point of debate. On her view that an energy transition would have multiple cost-saving and health … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate, Politics Tagged With: Barack Obama, climate change, dystopia, Jill Stein, politics

Presuming to Care about the Earth

By Sherry Ackerman | September 27, 2015

stuff on cats

There are times that I find myself wandering pensively in the woods, asking aloud, “so how should I presume?” I just read about the land sinking -- up to thirteen inches a year in some places -- in the Central Valley of California. I also just read about there being no mountaintops left in certain areas of West Virginia anymore. None. And, the coal companies are pulling … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate Tagged With: climate change, TS Eliot

Relying on the Government will Make Climate Change Worse

By Sherry Ackerman | August 20, 2015

activism equipment

Twenty-five years ago, existentialism was a hot piece of intellectual property. A literate public was buying up such books as William Barrett's Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy and Viktor Frankl's From Death Camp to Existentialism (later republished under the title Man's Search for Meaning). American psychologists were being introduced to the movement by … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate Tagged With: Environmental Protection Agency, existentialism

In films about climate change, the medium is the wrong message

By Allan Stromfeldt Christensen | July 7, 2015

climate films

If you'd like, I'm what you'd call an ex-(aspiring) filmmaker, an early vanguard of what promises to be, in one way or another, an eventual mass exodus from the film and television industries. I won't go into my reasoning behind film and television's future demise here, but suffice to say, if left to its own devices, the future of film and television is in the hands of peak oil … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate, Films Tagged With: fossil fuel replacement, Hollywood, renewable energy

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