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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

The climate speech he should have given

By Eric Krasnauskas | July 10, 2013

Climate protest poster

At the end of June, President Obama gave his first major address on climate change to the nation. While many environmentalists jumped for joy, I found myself singularly unimpressed — the speech lacked any real sense of urgency, and it was mired in the same plodding, informative language that convinces few people of the seriousness of the problem, much less compels them to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate Tagged With: Barack Obama, clean energy, Hurricane Sandy, national security

A fork in the road on dirty energy

By Staff Reports | February 22, 2013

Photo: tarsandsaction/Flickr.

This article is taken from a response by James Hansen to an op-ed piece published by Joe Nocera in the New York Times on February 18, 2013, "How Not to Fix Climate Change."  There, Nocera writes "I believe the Obama administration should approve the Keystone pipeline, which would transport oil mined and processed from the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, to refineries in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate Tagged With: clean energy, James Hansen, NASA

Climate change: Obama needs to turn talk into action

By Lindsay Curren | December 5, 2012

Something's been troubling me ever since I listened to President Obama's first post-reëlection press conference. Perhaps as a result of Hurricane Sandy, the now two-term president was finally asked a question about global warming, a topic conveniently avoided by both sides throughout the seemingly interminable campaign. The question came from New York Times White House … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate Tagged With: Barack Obama, clean energy, climate change, conservation, economy, homesteading, local economy, relocalization

Women, energy, and voting

By Lindsay Curren | November 6, 2012

It was a pretty disappointing presidential campaign by the two major parties given that neither talked about my key issues — peak oil and global warming — with any passion or consistency. Both major parties seem content to avoid what are essentially the two toughest challenges today and going into the future. The issue behind all issues Yes, there's been plenty of red meat … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Barack Obama, clean energy, global climate disruption, global warming, peak oil

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