Here’s an article from the Sierra Club that includes a cool animated piece on oil from tar sands, illustrating why this subject, and the Keystone XL pipeline in particular, is such a bad idea. It’s bad for everyone living on…
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The Many Faces of the Sierra Club
Maybe it’s a “guy-thing,” but I’ve always loved tree houses. One of the first books I ever loved was Swiss Family Robinson – and not for the plot or the characters; I just enjoyed how the author totally transported me…
The Many Faces of the Sierra Club
Maybe it’s a “guy-thing,” but I’ve always loved tree houses. One of the first books I ever loved was Swiss Family Robinson – and not for the plot or the characters; I just enjoyed how the author totally transported me…
Wal-mart Embracing Renewables, Shunning Power Utilities
I try to check out the Smart Grid News every day, as I feel that improvements here are the true enablers of the things that will ultimately win the day in terms of clean energy. Here’s an article on what…
Sometimes Environmentalists Get In Their Own Way
Here’s one of a few articles I’ve come across recently that reminds me of an important, if unsettling fact: in many cases, environmentalists are their own worst enemies. The most obvious cases of this may be here in California, one of…
Tagged with: bio-electricity, biofuels, environmentalists, environmentalists are their own worst enemies, follow the money, landfills leaching into our groundwater, quality of our natural environment, repatriating desert tortoises, Sierra Club, solar energy, wind farm
Posted in Renewables - Politics
Posted in Renewables - Politics
350.Org Says: Stop Investing in the Fossil Fuel Industry
I’m fascinated by the dynamics at work in our society that surround climate change. The United States is notably sluggish in its response to the challenge, and, perhaps because of this, certain groups with progressive ideals are getting fairly militant. …
An Angry Country Rethinks Its Stance on Civil Disobedience
Here’s a piece from the Executive Director of the Sierra Club, announcing that, after 120 years of endorsing only strictly legal actions, the organization for the first time will be embracing civil disobedience. Two quick observations, if I may: • It’s…
Tagged with: Abolitionists, civil disobedience, Keystone XL Pipeline, M.L. King, Occupy movement, Selma, Seneca, Sierra Club, Stonewall, Thoreau, women suffragettes
Posted in Renewables - Politics
Posted in Renewables - Politics
Gratitude for Holiday Gifts to Our Environment
Here’s a beautiful piece on environmentalism – climate change in particular – written within the context of holiday gifts. The author, Rebecca Solnit, celebrates the gifts we received, like the Sierra Club’s success with its Beyond Coal campaign, which, she…
Tagged with: asthma, Beyond Coal, coal-powered plants, environmentalism, global climate change, mercury poisoning, mountaintop removal, Rebecca Solnit, Sierra Club
Posted in Climate Change
Posted in Climate Change
A Changing Ethos: What Happens When It's Cool To Be Green?
My friend Tom Konrad of AltEnergyStocks.com responds to my piece earlier today on the effectiveness of the Sierra Club’s attack on coal. He writes: While I strongly support the Sierra Club’s “Beyond Coal” campaign, and feel it has made a…
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