How Bad Can One Degree Be?
A temperature increase of less than one degree has already disrupted the global climate system, and this is only the beginning. Will the Anthropocene bring a totally new climate regime?
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Resilience in the face of Climate Change
Resilience is a common principal of permaculture, says Dave Boehnlein, co-author of the book Practical Permaculture.
Take the Money and Burn: How CEO Pay Accelerates Climate Change
Perverse Pay Incentives Reward Fossil Fuel CEOs for Putting Planet at Risk
Little Normals
Resilience means seeking out the little normals – the constants in human nature, including the behaviors, institutions, and durable scales, that have stood the test of time – and reengaging with them meaningfully.
Hundreds Rally in Alaska to Tell Obama āClimate Leaders Donāt Drill the Arcticā
Climate groups rallied in Anchorage, Alaska to demand that the U.S. government, President Obama and Alaskan leaders take the urgent action needed to stop climate change. The “Rally to Confront the Glacial Pace of Political Action” took place as President Obama met with ministers from around the world for the “GLACIER” conference.
Slowly, With Earth Pushing Hard, A Confederacy Of Concern Develops
Underlying so much of the economic and ecological turmoil unfolding before us is a slow collision between the operating practices of the resource-wasting, vertically-managed 20th century and the much more crowded, polluted, and dangerous ecological and economic conditions of the 21st century.
āYou Fly to the Edge of the Tar Sands, and … No Lifeā
University of Montana professor George Price on permaculture, race, and how he’s standing up to tar sands extraction.
The Collapse of Western Civilization: Review
Collapse is a scenario of decline. The question is whether it is a useful one.
Co-operatives Need to Confront Climate Chaos
The challenges for 2015 are the same ones we’ve failed as a movement to find solutions to, or even act on, for a very long time: climate change and the neoliberal politics of austerity.
California Drought and Strengthening El Nino Accelerate Statewide Water Transition
As perhaps the strongest El Nino on record forms in the eastern Pacific Ocean, public officials in California are preparing for a winter in which the state’s drought emergency might be interrupted by disastrous floods.
Islamic Leaders Take on Climate Change, Criticizing “Relentless Pursuit of Economic Growth”
A group of leading Islamic scholars have issued a declaration calling on the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims to do their part to eliminate dangerous greenhouse gas emissions and turn toward renewable energy sources.
NOAA: July Was Hottest Month Ever Worldwide
July was a scorcher, globally speaking. Last month was the warmest on record worldwide with many countries and the world’s oceans experiencing intense heat waves, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said today in a report.
