Thor Hinckley, manager of the nation’s leading renewable power program, supplied this guest post. Thor is my husband. To quote from Nobel laureate Al Gore: “For those who care about the global warming catastrophe — this is the moment”. The Waxman-Markey legislation known as the Carbon Cap and Trade bill is coming up for a [...]
Entries Tagged as 'global warming'
House Votes on Carbon Cap & Trade Bill This Friday
June 24th, 2009 · No Comments · politics, sustainability
Tags: Al Gore·bipartisan politics·cap and trade bill·carbon footprint·climate change·global warming·Repower America·Waxman-Markey bill
Run 7 On 7 Wins Diamond-Cut Carat Award
May 5th, 2009 · No Comments · sustainability
I’ve named Linda Quirk, the marathon-running founder of Run 7 On 7, as the first winner of the Diamond-Cut Carat Award, for making a change toward sustainability. As her website illustrates, Ms. Quirk responded to a challenge to offset the carbon emissions created by her air travel to seven continents by donating to the Carbon [...]
Tags: carbon footprint·climate change·global warming·Linda Quirk·outdoors·Run 7 On 7
The Choices We Do And Don’t Have
April 6th, 2009 · 2 Comments · energy, sustainability
The new Grist site has an article titled Myth: Using Less Energy = Sacrifice. Its author David Roberts is saying what mainstream culture wants to hear: no discomfort at hand as we deal with global warming. No lifestyle changes needed. I know many progressive people, smart people, who promote this viewpoint. And I understand that [...]
Tags: change·climate change·culture·David Roberts·global warming·Grist·oil
The Fun of Being In Training
March 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment · community, energy, home & garden, lifestyle, simplicity, sustainability, transportation
Some mornings I write briefly (before dashing off to meet the vanpool) about something that’s been cooking in my mind for some time. This is one of those mornings, and what’s been cooking in my mind is the now fully-baked conviction that we’re in training. Whether here in Oregon or all over the U.S. and [...]
Tags: Diamond-Cut Life·fun·global warming·green living·happiness·Mount Tabor·Oregon·right livelihood
Capitol Climate Action A Success
March 4th, 2009 · No Comments · sustainability
The largest act of civil disobedience against climate change in U.S. history took place in the nation’s Capitol in frigid, snowy weather on March 2. More than 2,000 people marched, and many risked arrest by blocking all four entrances to the coal-fired Capitol Power Plant. Time magazine gave it serious coverage among other mainstream [...]
Tags: activism·climate change·coal·coal plants·global warming·social justice
