Today, a representative of the Permanent Missions of the Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS) emailed me to let me know of a resolution on the threat of climate change to international peace and security they will introduce to the United Nation’s General Assembly. The co-sponsoring nations believe that the UN Charter charges the Security […]
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A bridge across the aisle on climate change
Recently, I received an email from a military officer who I happen to know because he is an expert on subversive warfare, which, in a way, was the subject of my last book. He is a Christian and, I’m pretty sure, a Republican. All the same, without invitation from me, he has become reader of […]
A technological approach to individual action on climate change
So a while back I met this artist/engineer/satellite designer and otherwise genius professor from New York University, and I instantly started arguing with her. Natalie Jeremijenko (who you can read about on Salon) was talking about technological approaches to climate change, and I just started on my rant about how we can’t wait for new […]
Oil addiction
Remember that song that went something like “your foot bone is connected to your ankle bone?” Well here’s a cool video from Good Magazine that makes the same sort of connections all the way from dinosaurs to oil to high food prices. You could get the crazy idea that breaking our reliance on fossil fuels […]
The Carbon Age
There are a few reasons why a No Impact reader might care a whole lot about the fact that a writer named Eric Roston has just published his excellent book The Carbon Age. One reason might be that, with so much talk about carbon dioxide this and carbon dioxide that, no one, until now, has […]
Gore’s call for 100% renewable electricity by 2018
Al Gore Thursday made an important speech in which he called upon the United States to generate 100% of its electricity by renewable means by 2018. This is exactly the approach we need to achieve what is scientifically necessary. I haven’t spoken to them yet, but I believe it is entirely in line with the […]
Are we heading towards a different/better/worse world?
Tonight I was on a panel with the author and social critic James Howard Kunstler, of whom many of you have probably heard (The Long Emergency and Geography of Nowhere, among many others). Kunstler writes and talks about many things, including the post peak oil world. (For those of you who don’t know about, its […]
The planet’s most important number stars in a two-minute cartoon
May Boeve of 350.org, the organization that is trying to let the entire planet’s population know that atmospheric carbon dioxide needs to be stabilized at no more than 350 parts per million (ppm), wrote to me today. She wrote: “The video is live… Feel free to send it out. The cat is out of the […]