Tag Archive: climate change

Climate Change – The Lies They Tell

Struck speechless just in time for Wordless Wednesday.

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Five Ways To Avoid Global Caregiver’s Syndrome

Sometimes I wear myself out worrying about the big picture.  I know I'm not the only one who does this.  Just last week, Psychologists for Social Responsibility warned that if we do not see dramatic political action on climate change by the end of this year, there is a risk that ...

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World Leaders Politically Unbound For Copenhagen

Yesterday, world leaders announced that they will not be seeking a politically binding climate change agreement at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference in December.  The climate change treaty has been postponed until... some time next year. To anyone who has been ...

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The Thing About Climate Change

As a big fan of post-apocalyptic movies, I am super excited about 2012.  It's like every great apocalyptic movie rolled into one, minus zombies.  (It would be even cooler if there were zombies.  Zombies make everything better.) Yesterday, I was struck when the preview came on my TV and I heard Danny Glover's voice ...

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Is the Climate Justice Fast hunger strike extremism?

I have been a bit absent this week, pondering the questions posed in my last post, as well as the fascinating discussion going on over at Worldchanging in the comments of Transition ...

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350 Climate Action Day: On the Blue Line March in Olympia, WA

Saturday afternoon, I headed over to the Blue Line March in downtown Olympia.  Coordinated through 350.org's International Climate Action Day, the intent of the march was to trace the potential future waterline downtown. All in all, it was a good event with a good turn out.  There were ...

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350 Or Bust!

What are you doing to get below 350? Cryptic?  Maybe.  But it shouldn't be.  It is time for everyone to know what 350 means.  And that's what October 24th, the International Day of Climate Action, is all about. What is 350? 350 is the magic number.  350 is the line we have to get back to ...

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Girl Power – Solving the problem of population growth

Last Thursday was Blog Action Day: Climate Change.  Thousands of bloggers from around the world, across countries and across topics, took a day to blog about climate change.  It was a profound example of the power of collected action -- nearly 32,000 posts reached an estimated 17 million people. But as I ...

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19 Simple Ways to Start Thinking About Climate Change – Blog Action Day

I promised that for Blog Action Day '09, we would hear from my greyhounds on the issue of climate change.  Well, my friends, they did not disappoint. Superman said that he would really like to take advantage of some of the available tax incentives for alternative energy construction.  He then ...

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Blog About Climate Change!

Continuing with my ever-popular theme of connecting cute animals with environmental issues, tomorrow I will be answering the question, "What do these greyhounds think about climate change?" Tomorrow, October 15th, is Change.org's Blog Action Day '09.  This ...

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