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May 9, 2013
by Ugo Bardi, The Frog That Jumped Out
Evidence that you are doing something right in the climate change debate often comes from the denial reaction. Most of the times, messages on climate change are simply ignored but, occasionally, the reaction is strong; sometimes rabid. Then, you must have hit a sensitive point!
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Apr 26, 2013
by Rob Hopkins, Transition Culture
The other day a friend and I took our young sons on a tour of the Met Office’s centre near Exeter. The Met Office is home to the Hadley Centre, one of the foremost centres where climate modelling and research into climate change takes place. It was to turn out to be an event I left both …
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Apr 17, 2013
by Ugo Bardi, Cassandra's legacy
Fiesole, a small town near Florence, Italy, is being affected by climate change just as every place on earth. Here, I report of an initiative to bring the problem to the citizens' attention and motivate them to act on it. In this occasion, I tried to use some strategies that I took mainly from a …
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Mar 25, 2013
by Max Iacono, Cassandra's legacy
Abstract. This post attempts to describe succinctly the relevant intellectual territory with respect to both macro and micro types of policies and strategies at both the national and the organizational levels. It also highlights similarities and differences between "policies" and …
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Mar 4, 2013
by Tom Eaglehardt, TomDispatch
Two Sundays ago, I traveled to the nation’s capital to attend what was billed as “the largest climate rally in history” and I haven’t been able to get the experience -- or a question that haunted me -- out of my mind. Where was everybody?
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Jan 30, 2013
by Joe Brewer, Cognitive Policy Works
At the heart of the climate crisis is a profound clash of worldviews. People live in different ideological camps — beholden to their own beliefs, values, judgements, and ideas about the relationship between humans and the natural environment. The failure of climate activists to engage the …
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Jan 22, 2013
by Craig K. Comstock, The Huffington Post
The main talent of Martin Luther King Jr., among many, was an ability to lift into wide awareness brutality and unfairness that a majority had been willing to ignore. The struggle for racial justice is not over (for example, the same Supreme Court that proclaimed the personhood of corporations …
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Jan 17, 2013
by Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
•Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided?
•Global warming, peak oil, economic chaos
•The Healing Power Of Beauty In A Bleak World
•Waiting for the punchline
•Moral case for sustainability more effective than economic?
•Pandora's Boxes
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Jan 15, 2013
by Albert Bates, The Great Change
Mark Bittman, Food columnist for the New York Times and bon vivant travel franchise for public television, has made more than a few enemies for criticizing the choices celebrities make in their food and beverage endorsements. Said Bittman, “[Beyoncé] Knowles is renting her …
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Nov 21, 2012
by Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
•New Report Examines Risks of 4 Degree Hotter World by End of Century [World Bank] •Public Support for Climate and Energy Policies in September 2012 [US]
