Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Last few times I’ve been in the Phoenix area, the worsening smog has been evident, an increasingly serious, dangerous, and tragic by-product of the automobile-based population explosion in that state.
Now Arizona is following California’s example and taking action to cut carbon emissions, a leading cause of global warming.
If we can’t [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
More evidence of the Bush administration going in the wrong direction in terms of energy, now the Dept. of Energy wants to cut the paltry amount of government funding for geothermal and hydropower. This is stupid, but consistent.
This one can be fought on the Congressional level. Hint, hint…
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Searching around for the latest action on climate change, I found this post on the DeSmogBlog (how can you not like the name?) regarding a suit being brought by climate scientists against the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the US Supreme Court arguing that the EPA is ‘mischaracterizing’ the [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
In my earlier post today, I briefly referenced California for its state-level initiatives to drastically reduce carbon emissions that contribute to global warming. Then I went to my NY Times and found a very long, quite good article about exactly that on the front page. It goes on for two pages inside [...]