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How to Talk to a Climate ‘Skeptic’

By Erik Curren | September 10, 2019

We originally published this piece in September of 2010, but because we still get comments from climate science deniers, as a service to our readers, we've just updated it and published it again. -- Editor We've all had the experience: Arguing with somebody who doesn't believe that climate change is real. You know there's no way to win. You'll never convince a real science … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate Tagged With: climate skeptics, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Oct 2010, United Nations

Homemade Halloween

By Lindsay Curren | October 18, 2012

We're running this piece from 2010 again in celebration of the upcoming Halloween. One of my worst parenting memories happened when I took my daughters trick-or-treating on the vaunted Lawn of the University of Virginia campus one year. The girls were about six and four at the time, and the picturesque associations of the annual UVa. Halloween tradition conjured up … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Small World Tagged With: consumerism, cooking, DIY, homesteading, Oct 2010, parenting, relocalization

Polluters vs. the people

By Staff Reports | October 2, 2010

Vintage shot of underground coal miners

Guest column by climatologist Dr. James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. We hold this truth to be self evident – all people are created equal. That truth is the basis for equal protection of the laws – a right guaranteed by our Constitution. "All people" includes young people, mountain people, poor people. Our government was instituted … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: carbon tax, climate skeptics, coal, community organizing, James Hansen, mountaintop removal, Oct 2010

It takes a village to raise the world

By Lindsay Curren | October 2, 2010

Rob Hopkins, co-founder of the worldwide Transition Town Network. Photo: Stephen Prior

For a guy who set out in 2005 to help his small Irish village move toward an economy beyond fossil fuels and ended up spawning a world wide movement that in five short years has lead to 323 Transition groups around the world, Rob Hopkins sure is humble and unassuming. We sat down recently with the no-fly-zone leader for an interview via Skype straight to the beating heart of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: climate disruption, community organizing, DIY, Oct 2010, peak oil, permaculture, Totnes, United Kingdom

Would Patton hate nukes?

By Erik Curren | October 1, 2010

George C. Scott as Patton

It appears that General George S. Patton, hero of the Battle of the Bulge, is back.  As always, he's not taking any balogna in Bastogne.  But this time, he's come to open up a can of whoop-ass on energy ideas that would make America open to foreign baddies. "Patton is the biggest enemy of nuclear power,"  according to his amanuensis, former CIA Director James Woolsey,  who … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: biofuels, clean energy hawks, conservation, James Woolsey, national security, Oct 2010, oil

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