What extinction crisis? Believe it or not, there are still climate science deniers out there. And they're as ready as ever to draw you into arguments. Don't take the bait. Photo: "Click-64"/Flickr. 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 … [Read more...]
Everyman’s journey
We're re-running this popular piece from the first year of Transition Voice. Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is To Come A Survival Sampler "So, can I ask you a personal question? What do YOU call this whole thing, whatever it is, that's gonna happen?" I posed this to a man I had just met and who happens to be the largest supplier on the East Coast of … [Read more...]
Homemade Halloween
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...]
Polluters vs. the people
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...]
It takes a village to raise the world
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...]