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#GreenNewDeal

The Green New Deal aims to get us there—and remake the country in the process. It promises to give every American a job in that new economy: installing solar panels, retrofitting coastal  infrastructure, manufacturing electric vehicles. In the 1960s, the U.S. pointed the full power of its military-technological industry at going to the moon. Ocasio-Cortez […]

2018 12 06 A.J. General Comments (0)

Video: Naomi Klein Interviews Bernie Sanders on Climate Change

THE BOLD MORAL leadership of newly elected members of Congress like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has me feeling more optimistic about our collective chances of averting climate breakdown than I have in years. Source: Video: Naomi Klein Interviews Bernie Sanders on Climate Change Worthwhile video – we have 12 years…

2018 12 03 A.J. General Comments (0)

This is terrifying

The Insect Apocalypse When his parents took him driving, he remembered, the car’s windshield was frequently so smeared with insect carcasses that you almost couldn’t see through it. But all that seemed distant now. He couldn’t recall the last time he needed to wash bugs from his windshield. nyti.ms/2DMT70v

2018 12 02 A.J. General Comments (0)

So, What Can I Do?

Great post here on the topic of changes you can make in your own lives. A lot of people ask me how they can live more sustainably, and help combat global environmental issues like climate change in their own lives. Here’s my advice. Knowing that people are very busy, and most don’t really want long, complicated […]

2016 11 14 A.J. Environment Comments (0)

Meat

(No hard frost yet.) We watched Before the Flood on friday night. Leonardo Di Caprio’s new movie on climate change. It contains some powerful imagery of the effects of climate change that are happening right now. To see the tar sands in alberta or a mountaintop removal in west virgina is staggering. How can I […]

2016 11 13 A.J. Environment Comments (1)

It’s more than climate change

Reducing humanity’s carbon pollution will certainly be logistically difficult, but its roots are essentially blameless – by the time climate change was a problem, nations had built their economies on cheap fossil fuel – and conceptually simple: pollute less. It’s comforting to think that, if humanity can fix Earth’s climate, nature’s problems will be also […]

2015 12 15 A.J. Environment Comments (0)

Tips for Reducing Your Carbon Footprint

This is a great list of ideas for reducing your carbon footprint from the New York Times: Global climate: it’s complicated. Any long-term solution will require profound changes in how we generate energy. At the same time, there are everyday things that you can do to reduce your personal contribution to a warming planet. Here […]

2015 12 12 A.J. Environment Comments (0)