Another day, another report, another call for immediate action
Another group of scientists convened by the United Nations has called for swift and immediate action to curb the carbon emissions that are causing global warming.
No more coal-fired power plants, says James Hansen
James Hansen, head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York and one of our country’s most important scientific voices on climate change, yesterday called for the end of coal-fired power plants.
Earth spirituality: …a complex weaving of reciprocities
It is important to understand the Earth, not as something inert, with unlimited resources, available to us to our whim, but as something alive, the Mother of all, who must be respected in her integrity.
Why planting trees, and other offsets, won’t do it
Carbon offsets, like planting trees, cannot help us avoid the inevitable: we must drastically reduce our carbon emissions, and we must do that very soon.
…using the atmosphere like a municipal dump
Coal is, as we have written previously, the dirtiest of all fossil fuels, as well as one of the most destructive ecologically.
Join in the Step It Up 2007 campaign
Bill McKibben (The End of Nature, among other writings) is one among many organizations and individuals who are spearheading a national grassroots drive to organize hundreds of local actions around the country on April 14 to demand action on global warming.
Emission offsets — less than their billing
I am always immediately suspicious of ideas that promise that we in this consumer culture can contribute our share to reducing emissions while we simply go on about our business…
Tropical glaciers - “canaries in the coalmine”
the great tropical Andean glacier will disappear by 2012 because of global warming.
Does Hippocratic Oath challenge doctors to stop spewing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere?
does flying unnecessarily to medical conferences with little or nothing to contribute to the medical field violate the Hippocratic Oath which says that doctors must ‘do no harm?’
A poem for you today
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Not news today, just a poem from Denise Levertov:
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It Should Be Visible
If from Space not only sapphire continents,
swirling oceans, were visible, but the wars —
like bonfires, wildfires, forest conflagrations,
flame and smoky smoulder — the Earth would seem
a bitter pomander ball bristling with poison cloves.
And each war fuelled with weapons: […]
