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climate change
An invitation from 350.org to help wake up our world leaders
Dear World, This is an invitation to help build a movement–to take one day day and use it to stop the climate crisis. On October 24, we will stand together as one planet and call for a fair global climate treaty. United by a common call to action, we’ll make it clear: the world needs an international plan […]
A primer on what it would take to fix climate
We’ve all been seeing what Obama believes is necessary for the economic bailout, but what is needed for the climate bailout? Here are the five policies that, according to New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, the new CEO of ClimateWorks, Hal Harvey, says we need: First, building codes: “California’s energy-efficient building and appliance codes now […]
To save the planet, we’ll have to bury the party political hatchet
I’m sick of inter-party animosity. I’m tired of progressives who won’t listen to a person who identifies as conservative. I’m tired of conservatives who won’t listen to a liberal. How unlikely is it, anyway, that either the classical liberal or conservative ideologies provides the best policy solution for every situation? Doesn’t it make sense that […]
How I made a clean energy difference in Washington
I used to wonder: What does it matter if I choose to use planetary resources more carefully? Can I really make a difference? I might also have asked: What does it matter if I choose to show up at a rally to advocate for clean energy and end to coal burning? I will be one […]
On not putting a kid with cancer in my gas tank
Today, I went to see director Joe Berlinger’s new documentary Crude, about the toxic mess left behind when Texaco withdrew from the Ecuadorian Amazon in the 1990s. I listened to a man talk about how his little boy died 24 hours after a Texaco oil spill tainted the water supply. I watched mothers crying about […]
Want to come to Washington, DC with me?
As Kate Sheppard from Grist puts it: Some 10,000 young people will be descending on Washington, D.C., from Feb. 27 to March 2 for the Power Shift 2009 conference, where they’ll be organizing to put pressure on political leaders to take action on climate change. On the last day of the event, they’re planning a […]
Some good news, some bad
Yesterday I watched a video of Harvard psychologist Daniel Goleman’s talk at the 2007 TED (you can watch it here). Goleman discussed brain research which says we are hardwired for empathy and compassion. If we see someone in pain, we automatically want to help. Unless we aren’t paying attention. Goleman said that we get so […]