Climate Change is Not a Spectator Sport.
“A gradual contraction into more sustainable patterns of resource use is not the norm for a society that is exploiting the environment. The norm is a last-ditch effort to maintain outward displays of power, and then a sudden, and dramatic, collapse.” That’s one of the foreboding statements with which ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in May 2011, about Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Environmental Disasters, Finance & Money, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government (2 comments)
Gary Comer was a wealthy retired American who found on a private voyage in 2001 that he was able to easily navigate the normally ice-bound Northwest Passage in northern Canada. It perturbed him that he could do so and resulted in his substantial funding of scientific research into the global ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in May 2011, about Climate Change, Environmental Disasters, Events, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Weather
Mark Stevenson’s book An Optimist’s Tour of the Future had me wondering in its opening pages. I warmed to the lively engaging style but I didn’t want to read about a scientist’s vision of human lifetimes lasting thousands of years. As I see it generations need ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in May 2011, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Agriculture & Food, Air Quality, Alternative, Cohousing, & Off-Grid Living, Architecture, Art & Culture, Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Carbon Sequestration, Carbon Trading, Celebrities, Children and Families
Climate protection is good business. Entrepreneurs and companies who engage in it are prospering. That’s the message of L. Hunter Lovins and Boyd Cohen in their recently published book Climate Capitalism: Capitalism in the Age of Climate Change. They energetically urge entrepreneurs and businesses to take advantage of the ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in May 2011, about Carbon Trading, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Economics, Electric vehicles, Emissions, Energy Saving, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Solar
John Cook’s website Skeptical Science is held in high regard for its patient examination of the arguments put up by climate change deniers and its marshalling of the answers mainstream climate science provides. The result is quietly devastating as the scientific inadequacy of the deniers’ arguments becomes apparent. Cook ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in April 2011, about Climate Change, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Media, Philosophy & Religion, Politics & Government
Climate scientists and those working in associated fields have established a clear picture of human-caused climate change and what it is likely to mean in the future. The basic information is readily understandable. It’s alarming in what it portends and a rational human society would by now be well ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in April 2011, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Children and Families, Climate Change, Consumerism, Politics & Government, Smart Growth, Transition Towns
Richard Alley’s splendid abilities as a communicator are well displayed in his new book Earth: The Operators’ Manual. Written as a companion book for a forthcoming PBS documentary he hosts, it provides a lively review of the science of climate change and of the renewable energy sources now able ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in April 2011, about Climate Change, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Media
Australian Paul Gilding straddles the NGO and the corporate worlds. A former international head of Greenpeace, he subsequently moved into consultancy with global corporations and others on the transition to sustainability. Transition can sound a comfortingly gradual process, but that’s far from the case with the transition foreseen in ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in March 2011, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Agriculture & Food, Air Quality, Alternative, Cohousing, & Off-Grid Living, Architecture, Art & Culture, Biofuels & Alternative Energy (7 comments)
American journalist Mark Hertsgaard understands what lies ahead for humanity as climate change unfolds, some of it already unavoidable though hopefully manageable, but with outright chaos lurking if we fail to rein in emissions. He harbors no illusions. The fact that his little daughter will be part of the generation ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in March 2011, about Climate Change, Emissions, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government, Poverty & Development
Adapting to Climate Change is a reassuring sounding title, but the content of this book makes it clear that there will be nothing straightforward or easy as human communities try to ready themselves for the coming climate crisis. Editors Neil Adger, Irene Lorenzoni and Karen O’Brien have been doing ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in March 2011, about Climate Change, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government
