Posted in Climate Research, tagged climate, climate change, climate predictions, consequences of global warming, Global warming, IPCC on May 30, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Better four years late than never, . . . The White House finally issued a comprehensive climate report, confirming the man-made origin of global warming, and validating earlier U.S. specific predictions from the IPCC.
Nothing that we did not know already, but still, it is a step towards more transparency from the top. Bad news have [...]
Posted in Solutions, tagged Amory Lovins, carbon calculator, environmental concerns, Financial Times, green, Green Business, green politics, Rocky Mountain Institute, together.com on May 30, 2008 | 10 Comments »
‘Wilting agenda: Britain loses its appetite for green initiatives‘ made the front page of the Financial Times yesterday. We have a lot to learn, however, from the Brits as they struggle through hard economic times and demonstrate to us what can happen then. Some facts, first:
With the economy rising to the top of Brits’ concerns, [...]
Posted in Solutions, tagged climate change, climate denial, climate deniers, climate ethics, Donald Brown, environmental ethics, ethics, G8 Summit, Global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, morals, Rock Ethics Institute on May 28, 2008 | 11 Comments »
For all of us climate deniers, in various states, as in here and here and here, Meryn Stol found a new argument, for why we should all care, and take quick action, no matter what:
Donald Brown is Associate Professor of Environmental Ethics at Penn State University, and the head of the [...]
Posted in Solutions, tagged climate change, David Holmgren, energy descent, energy futures, future scenarios, global future scenarios, Global warming, peak oil, permaculture, sustainability, sustainable future, sustainable world, techno-explosion, techno-stability on May 27, 2008 | 21 Comments »
If you are as interested as I am, in planning for our global future, I suggest you pay a visit to permaculture guru, David Holmgren’s new website. Future Scenarios is impressive by the depth of its thinking regarding the long term implications of peak oil and climate change. Most importantly, “Scenario planning allows us to use stories [...]
Posted in Solutions, tagged Attention Environmentalists, carbon footprint, carbon trading, China, climate change, coal plants, environmentalists, Global warming, GMO, green living, hybrid cars, organic, tree planting, Wired, Wired magazine on May 26, 2008 | 18 Comments »
Until today, I resisted the urge to comment on Wired provocative article on Inconvenient Truths: Get Ready to Rethink What It Means to Be Green. Lynn Miller’s comment on Goeff Livingston’s post about Wired piece, gave me the push I needed.
First, I agree with Lynn. Anything that can draw people into thinking about their carbon footprint, [...]
Posted in Policy Matters, tagged environmental policy, Environmental Summit, G8 Summit, greenhouse gas reductions, leadership psychology on May 25, 2008 | 10 Comments »
News from the G8 Environmental Summit in Kobe, are not encouraging:
The European Union has pledged a 20 percent emissions reduction by 2020, and has offered to raise it to 30 percent if other nations sign on. A U.N.-brokered agreement last December included a footnote referencing the need for cuts of between 25 percent and 40 [...]
Posted in Green Girl Wannabe, tagged biking, cars, cognitive psychology, consciousness, dysfunctional thoughts, eco-psychology, green living, Green Psychology, meditation on May 22, 2008 | 23 Comments »
More potent than the most virulent tirades from flaming climate deniers, are the silent thoughts that circle in our minds and negate even our greenest intentions. It takes trained attention to catch these thoughts. Right now, for instance, I am about to go grocery shopping at Whole Foods. Only a few miles away. No objective [...]
