Posts Tagged ‘global warming’
The Climate Reality Project: a Live, 24 Hours of Environmental Reality
What do you say to a sizable population of Americans that believe climate change is not for real?
Significant Role of Oceans in Onset of Ancient Global Cooling- New Report Concludes
What a difference 38 million years makes. Cornfields of the midwestern United States were a tropical region
Journey to Planet Earth: Plan B- Mobilizing to Save Civilization
Environmental scientist, Lester R. Brown, argues that climate change threatens civilization, he outlines his ideas in Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization.
Harmony Comes to NBC
November 19, 2010 A film that I am looking forward to watching tonight (10pm PST) on NBC/Green is Harmony. Last April, NBC partnered with HRH The Prince of Wales (Prince Charles) in order to bring this conscientious environmental film to a wider audience during their “Green is Universal” programming this month. “The Prince of Wales [...]
Carlo Petrini: Now We Have A Dilemma, part 3 (video)
In part 3, Carlo Petrini asks of us to take a step back from our daily lives, and reexamine our values that we hold so dear; perhaps values we would never think to even question.
Carlo Petrini: The Earth Is Not An Infinite Resource, part 2 (video)
Agriculture has a system of built-in limitations. But, we have figured out how to bypass many of those limits, and so, pay a terrible cost.
10 Science Letdowns of the New Millennium [Slide Show]
January 15, 2010 Number 7, in the Scientific Americans’ 10 biggest letdowns of the new millennium: Climate Still Changing The headline could easily have read instead: Human Civilization As We Know It— Imperiled: World Leaders Unable to Galvanize Appropriate Response Despite (by and large) a majority consensus amongst the world’s climate science experts (though far [...]
Sky Vegetables: A Brilliant Notion
One of the big challenges facing our modern industrial food system is the heavy reliance upon fossil fuels for the growing of crops, and the transporting of them long distances to market. An average head of lettuce travels 1500 miles before reaching the supermarket shelf, a longer distance than many of us travel on vacation. [...]


