Twenty seven years ago

Twenty seven years ago

27 years ago the U.N. Environment Program said we had 10 years left to get climate change under control, before it “goes beyond human control.” We didn’t do anything about it. We’ve emitted almost as much CO2 in the past 27 years as we did in...
Climate change is a human rights issue

Climate change is a human rights issue

The greatest human rights violation of our time is that a small number of people in rich, developed countries are wrecking the climate with a huge impact primarily (so far) on the large numbers of vulnerable poor people in countries that have had very little to do...
Learn about climate change (or cats) on YouTube

Learn about climate change (or cats) on YouTube

YouTube is not just a great source for cat videos; it’s also a great way to learn about all kinds of things, including climate change. But don’t worry, you don’t have to dig through the good, the bad, and the ugly of climate change videos, because...

The Great Wall of Cups

Starbucks coffee cups (and many other similar cups) cannot be recycled. They are made out of paper, but they are lined with plastic. More than 8000 Starbucks cups go into the trash every single minute. Read that again. 8000 a minute. That’s a lot of cups....
Coal is not “clean” and never will be

Coal is not “clean” and never will be

Last week, the RNC released its draft platform, and declared coal “an abundant, clean, affordable, reliable domestic energy resource.” Tell that to the communities devastated by toxic coal ash waste, like Kingston, Tennessee where 1,100,000,000 (yes...