DON’T WORRY, DRIVE ON: Fossil Fools & Fracking Lies
The Post Carbon Institute created the following video to dispel the current misconceptions about the viability of relying on new, “uncoventional” sources of oil such as fracking. As they say in the video, “Yes, there’s still oil in the ground. We just can’t afford it. In broad terms, the peak oil analysts were right. But the fossil fuel industry is [...]
Perspectives on Limits to Growth: Climate change and energy; challenges and opportunities
Richard Alley speaks about climate change and some of the opportunities we have to build a better future by using renewable energy sources and moving away from dependence on fossil fuels. His talk was part of the symposium put on by the Smithsonian Institution and the Club of Rome to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Limits to Growth study.
Richard [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Imagine A Human Species Intent On Enriching The Earth
by Elizabeth Sawin
— 1 January, 2002 —
The energy of the sun, captured by plants and passed on to animals, makes everything possible – dolphins arcing out of the ocean, geese moving across the sky, and also people, stirring their morning oatmeal, falling in love, or painting a barn.
In this truth lies beautiful poetry – the realization that in our children’s [...]
