Seeing Green: The hundred-year promise
We rarely pause to ask ourselves what we are willing to invest for the long haul. Yet in this time of resource exhaustion, species extinction and climate change, those investments are critical.
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Sunshine’s Gloomy Forecast
The reliability of our food crops has actually increased the risk of catastrophic failure.
Seeing Green: Giving solar its just deserts
When I was small, the word “desert” conjured images of towering Saharan dunes: windswept sand punctuated by rare oases, the only sign of life an occasional animal track quickly buried by the next sandstorm. Then, when I was 13, my parents took me to the Southwest. We visited Saguaro, Joshua Tree and other parts of the Mojave Desert, chased tarantulas, and watched cactus wrens build nests.
Seeing Green: Finding my religion
Could I, now a young adult, stand with a religion whose conservative social tenets I more often rejected than accepted?
Seeing Green: Jekyll and Hyde
You’ll quickly find The Heartland Institute’s latest propaganda piece: a mug shot of Ted Kaczynski next to the words, “I still believe in Global Warming. Do you?” Heartland’s not-so-subtle subtext: If you think the climate is changing, you’re no better the Unabomber.
Seeing Green: Blowing hot air
As surely as methane is trapped within its lattice of ice, we are trapped in a spider’s web of fossil fuel dependency.
Seeing Green: Business clusters and the transportation squeeze
Climate change aside, the reliance of shipping on fossil fuels is inherently unsustainable.
Seeing Green: On shifting sands
That’s the worry of thousands of homeowners along both the East and West coasts of the United States.