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Obama the Impotent | The New America Foundation
With the US Senate bogged down in the fight over reforming health care, American leaders have said that the senators might not move on climate legislation until 2010, well after the global climate change conference in Copenhagen in December. That drew a s
Coyote + wolf = new breed of predator - Discovery.com- msnbc.com
"It is somewhat ironic that a trait that was created by humans may now prove to be beneficial for wolves as they deal with human-caused changes to their habitat." [See: http://sciencetrio.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/coywolves-expand-their-range/]
Working Families Party Builds Progressive Power
The Working Families Party was started in 1998 by a group of labor and community activists who wanted to reinvigorate the fight for economic and social justice in New York. The Nation played a small but significant role in the party's birth, running an e
The fallacy of climate activism | Grist
"...denial requires a great deal of energy, is emotionally exhausting, fraught with conflict and confusion. Pretending we can save our current way of life derails us and sends us in directions that lead us astray. The sooner we embrace the truth, the so
The Great Paradox of China: Green Energy and Black Skies | The New America Foundation
The experience of daily life in Beijing hardly gives the impression that the last year has been a watershed for the environment in China. Being in the capital, one can't help but feel a little quizzical glancing at recent headlines from newspapers in Wash
Photos: hundreds of new species discovered in Himalayan region, threatened by climate change
The report highlights the over three hundred species discovered from 1998 to 2008 in the region, which includes Bhutan, northeast India, northern Myanmar, Nepal, and southern Tibet. (Excellent pics)
What’s the deal with offsets? | A Grist Special Series | Grist
The Waxman-Markey climate bill proposes more than a pure cap-and-trade scheme. It’s actually cap and trade and offset. Offsets, put simply, would let polluters pump more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than they would be permitted under the “cap” part
Meat, climate change, and industry tripe | Grist
Ezra Klein was right—there’s a strong case for eating less meat.
First Comes Global Warming, Then An Evolutionary Explosion by Carl Zimmer: Yale Environment 360
In a matter of years or decades, researchers believe, animals and plants already are adapting to life in a warmer world. Some species will be unable to change quickly enough and will go extinct, but others will evolve, as natural selection enables them to
Why haven’t we rallied our collective power to solve global warning? - Daniel Gilbert
"our brains can detect and deflect threat with astonishing speed...when any threat has these four features, we respond instantly...[without one of these features we twiddle our thumbs]...(1)faces, perceived intent (2)violates moral sensibilities (3)clear & present danger (4)brain is sensitive to relative changes
Why haven’t we rallied our collective power to solve global warning? - Daniel Gilbert
"our brains can detect and deflect threat with astonishing speed...when any threat has these four features, we respond instantly...[without one of these features we twiddle our thumbs]...(1)faces, perceived intent (2)violates moral sensibilities (3)c
Homeless stand in for lobbyists on Capitol Hill - CNN.com
Maria Foscarinis, an advocate for the homeless, thinks it's ironic that some of the most powerful people in the country are using some of the most vulnerable to hold a place in line for them.
"They're likely to be standing in line for people who wel
Forget Shorter Showers - Why personal change does not equal political change
I want to be clear. I’m not saying we shouldn’t live simply. I live reasonably simply myself, but I don’t pretend that not buying much (or not driving much, or not having kids) is a powerful political act, or that it’s deeply revolutionary. It’s not. Pers
Enough of the half-measures
as with education: nothing we're doing, currently, is going to stop this [good news-y links in this] Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fgreenmonk.net%2Fenough-of-the-half-measures
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The planet and more importantly, all life on it has had 120m years to adapt to the 3 degree cooling which has occurred since then and we have adapted well. However, a rise of 3 degrees in less than 100 years would have catastrophic consequences for most plant and animal species on the planet who are designed to adapt to changes in geological timeframes, not generational ones.
World of Change : Feature Articles
Inspired by our 10th anniversary, the Earth Observatory has pulled together a special series of NASA satellite images documenting how our world—forests, oceans, human landscapes, even the Sun—has changed during the previous decade.
Center for Justice » “And the Earth is Hiring.”
There is invisible writing on the back of the diploma you will receive, and in case you didn’t bring lemon juice to decode it, I can tell you what it says: You are Brilliant, and the Earth is Hiring. The earth couldn’t afford to send any recruiters or lim
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You join a multitude of caring people. No one knows how many groups and organizations are working on the most salient issues of our day: climate change, poverty, deforestation, peace, water, hunger, conservation, human rights, and more. This is the largest movement the world has ever seen. Rather than control, it seeks connection. Rather than dominance, it strives to disperse concentrations of power.
Ezra Klein - Your World in Maps: Climate Change Edition
The graphic below -- click for full size -- presents two distorted maps. The first shows the world in terms of carbon emissions. America, for instance, is huge. So is China. And Europe. Africa is hardly visible. The second map shows the world in terms of
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