“Have the Best Earth Day Ever!”
Your assignment for Earth Day: Read these two books. Nothing else really matters.
Continue reading »Day #2 of Water Week: Green Washing
When life hands you lemons, there is often an opportunity to make lemonade. Last week, one of my daughters cleaned her room by overloading our wash machine with all the clothes that had been festering on her floor. This overload of laundry caused my 10+ year old wash machine to up and die. The repair [...]
Continue reading »Resilience
re·sil·ience Pronunciation: \ri-ˈzil-yən(t)s\ Function: noun 1 : the capability of a strained body to recover its size and shape after deformation caused especially by compressive stress 2 : an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change Resilience. The word keeps surfacing for me lately, it’s become a mantra to help keep [...]
Continue reading »Are You Ready For Transition?
December’s UN climate talks in Copenhagen failed to failed to produce a strong, binding agreement to cut carbon-dioxide emissions. Most Americans are painfully aware that burning fossil fuel contributes to increasing CO2 levels, pollution and climate change, but did you know we’re starting to run low? Fossil fuels are not in endless supply under the [...]
Continue reading »Is Our Climate Warming or Weirding?
WORD OF THE DAY: Global Weirding n. an increase in severe or unusual environmental activity often attributed to global warming. Note: Global weirding includes an increase in average temperatures, heat waves, cold spells, hurricanes, blizzards, plant and animal die-offs and population explosions, and new animal migration patterns. photo credit: Capitan Giona Climate change makes the [...]
Continue reading »Tiger Woods, Laughing Gas and Cow Farts
photo credit: gitsul. While many Americans are wasting valuable time oggling the news for the latest update on Tiger’s sex life, our atmosphere is filling up with greenhouse gases that may make human civilization unsustainable in the not too distant future. By now, you’ve probably heard about CO2. Carbon Dioxide is the main greenhouse gas [...]
Continue reading »Reducing C02: What You Can Do In Your Own Yard
Saturday’s world wide day of action got alot of people thinking about the number 350. What’s the big deal about 350?To paraphrase from the 350.org site:The science is clear: global warming is happening faster than ever and humans are responsible. Global warming is caused by releasing what are called greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The [...]
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