Overdosing the Earth
by Elizabeth R. Sawin
— 29 August, 2007 —
Not long ago I lived through a few minutes of very deep fear, thinking it possible that I had accidentally given my six-year-old an overdose of an over-the-counter medication.
I filled the little plastic measuring cup with a teaspoon of the viscous liquid and handed it over to my daughter, who drank it down, [...]
Acting at the Roots
by Elizabeth R. Sawin
— 10 July, 2007 —
One lesson I take from climate change is the admonition to search out and act at the root causes of complex problems.
Here’s an example:
In the political maneuvering leading up to the release of the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, the Bush administration was lobbying for the report to include an [...]
The First Step Toward Addressing Climate Change Is Facing Its Reality
by Elizabeth R. Sawin
— May 2, 2007 —
In a past column I have written about a narrow window of opportunity, a period of perhaps as few as ten years within which humanity must make dramatic reductions in worldwide CO2 emissions or run the risk of unleashing dangerous cascades of “runaway” warming. In this scenario, warming would begin to feed upon [...]
Climate Change: A Window of Opportunity
by Elizabeth R. Sawin
— April 3, 2007 —
On the surface, our lives run on as usual, with ordinary obligations and ordinary successes – mortgage payments, leaking faucets, overdue library books, deadlines met, milestones marked and moved beyond.
And yet while all this ordinary life has been going on we’ve also been adding to levels of heat-trapping pollution in the atmosphere. And [...]
The Christmas Tree Industry is One More Reason To Address Climate Change
by Andrew Jones
— November 27, 2004 —
One of my family’s favorite things to do this time of year is to journey into the mountains near Leicester to fell a Fraser fir at the farm of Anthony and Kay Cole. I met the Coles through their 5-year-old son Eli, who went to preschool with our daughter, Annabelle. If you have bought [...]
