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(Published By Sierra Club, January 2014) https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2014-1-january-february/taste-test/taste-test/five-foods-are-killing-planet We’ll let Pulitzer Prize–winning food critic Jonathan Gold get on his soapbox for this one: “People need to stop eating BLUEFIN TUNA. Period. It’ll be difficult because bluefin is uncommonly delicious and tends to be served at high-end sushi bars, where the fashion is to say ‘omakase‘ and …
by DAVE LINDORFF (Published in “CounterPunch” Jan. 23, 2014– http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/01/20/washington-and-the-oil-industry-know-the-truth-about-climate-change/) Climate skeptics in Congress, and oil and coal industry lobbyists like the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the American Coal Council (ACC) may be preventing any significant action in the US on reducing this country’s emissions of carbon into the atmosphere, but at the Pentagon, …
Continue reading “Washington and the Oil Industry Know the Truth About Climate Change”
Senior figures from industry, military and politics explore risks of financial chaos, oil depletion and climate catastrophe By Nafeez Ahmed – The Guardian, January 17, 2014 A conference sponsored by a US military official convened experts in Washington DC and London warning that continued dependence on fossil fuels puts the world at risk of an …
Continue reading “US Army colonel: world is sleepwalking to a global energy crisis”
By Emily Atkin- published in EcoNews, Jan 7, 2014- (see https://www.ecowatch.com/why-the-polar-vortex-does-not-disprove-global-warming-1881848617.html) On Sunday night, a reporter for The Weather Channel stood in a Minnesota snowstorm, talking about local efforts to move homeless children into heated shelters. “How cold is it supposed to get?” the anchor, back in the studio, asked. The reporter replied: “Colder than …
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Written by Marjorie McCloy for The Catalyst Magazine, Jan. 6, 2013. In late October I was walking in my leafy 9th and 9th neighborhood when my attention was snagged by a good-looking guy walking toward the sidewalk. He was carrying something, but since I was looking at him I didn’t notice what it was. Then …
SMITHSONIAN.COM’s Special Report: Energy Innovation – published Dec. 27, 2013 2013 was a great year for science. We discovered hundreds of exoplanets, found yet more evidence of ancient water on Mars and learned all about our species’ own evolution. But it’s important to remember that, in terms of the long-term survival of both our species …
Continue reading “Six Things We Learned About Our Changing Climate in 2013”
By Brian Moench, MD- published in Salt Lake Tribune Jan 4, 2014 (see http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/opinion/57344144-82/mexico-pollution-lake-moench.html.csp?page=1) Salt Lake City exists in a high altitude bowl surrounded by mountains, making us more vulnerable to pollution build up than other major cities. We all get that. Too often in response, we hear, “Well there’s not much we can do …
Continue reading “Moench: Mexico City solved similar bad-air mess”
By Peter Moskowitz (Occupy.Com/News Report, Jan. 1, 2013) orig. publ. by Aljazeera America. Scientists have found a nearly 7,500-square-mile ring of land and water contaminated by mercury surrounding the tar sands in Alberta, where energy companies are producing oil and shipping it throughout Canada and the U.S. Government scientists are preparing to publish a report …
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By EDUARDO PORTER, published in NYTimes- December 24, 2013 It is probably a safe bet that very few Americans unwrapping a brand-new iPhone left under their Christmas tree are thinking about its impact on the global climate. I have some good news for them, and some bad. No, Apple hasn’t managed to produce the device …
Continue reading “Rethinking How to Split the Costs of Carbon”
By Sarah Goodyear, published in Next City 12/19/13 (see http://nextcity.org/infrastructure/entry/the-urban-rural-water-wars-of-nevada) Seven states draw water from the Colorado River. Nevada’s take is only 300,000 acre feet, or about 2 percent. Credit:Flickr user K. Oliver Las Vegas has a water problem. Ninety percent of the city’s water comes from the Colorado River, specifically the reservoir at Lake …