Never Again Enough: Field Notes from a drying West
The crucial question for Phoenix, for the Colorado, and for the greater part of the American West is this: How long will the water hold out?
climate change
Confessions of a climate change denier
I suppose it wasn’t really until I was standing on the west side of Hoboken, New Jersey, in water and oil up to my thigh, that climate change really made sense.
Why we all agree on the environment
Filmmaker Peter Byck believes that the issue of preserving the environment is truly non-partisan, that when you strip away all the political rhetoric and carefully-crafted media narratives, we all really want the same thing: clean air, clean water and cheap energy.
Climate headlines
•Reuters’ climate-change coverage ‘fell by nearly 50% with sceptic as editor’ •Polar Thaw Opens Shortcut for Russian Natural Gas •Arctic methane ‘time bomb’ could have huge economic costs
Leaving Our Descendants A Whopping Rise in Sea Levels
German scientist Anders Levermann and his colleagues have released research that warns of major sea level increases far into the future.
The high price of materialism
A war on climate change is a war on materialism, plain and simple.
Mike Small on the Power of When Lots of People Do Stuff
You may feel as though your efforts, working in your local Transition initiative or doing other community resilience work, is just a drop in the ocean. Yet there is a huge power in it, especially when you look at it from the context of what happens when you add all that stuff up.
Environmental Debt
By focusing on developing the economy for decades, politicians and business leaders have done little to account for the environmental costs of growing industry. Now, economies worldwide are struggling to cover the increasing expenses of pollution and health care – But who is going to pay?
Extreme Overachiever Decade 2001-2010
These are the changes we’re seeing – a 0.8oC increase in global average temperatures – from carbon we burnt over a decade ago…
The decline of an empire
Given that City of Detroit has now officially filed for bankruptcy, it is worth looking at the bigger picture.
Global Power Shift
Global Power Shift (GPS) is a planetary-scale project to spark a new wave of climate action around the world.
Why Our Energy Choices Matter in a Warming, Water-Constrained World
In a future of growing climate change impacts and water strains, the water implications of our electricity choices are way worth paying attention to.