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Category Archives: Environment
How Are Things Going Before Earth Day?
Earth Day is Monday, so how are we doing? Is the news media helping us create a better environment? Bill McKibben follows issues centered around the climate crisis better than almost anyone. Here’s the stark truth from his substack, The … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill McKibben, climate change, climate crisis, Earth Day, environment
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Defend The Clean Air Act
From our friends at Physicians for Social Responsibility: Members of Congress are attempting to roll back one of the most crucial standards of Clean Air Act protections. We must stop them! The National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) are now … Continue reading
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Tagged action alert, Clean Air Act, environment, Iowa air quality, Physicians for Social Responsibility
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Earthrise Studio on Fossil Fuels
I met Finn Harries in Cedar Rapids at Al Gore’s 2014 Climate Reality Leadership Corps training. The diminutive Brit showed up only for the days Gore gave his Inconvenient Truth lecture. Harries and his twin brother Jack had millions of … Continue reading
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Tagged Earthrise Studio, environment, Finn Harries, fossil fuel industry, Jack Harries, renewables
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Reducing Consumption of Animal Products
An uncomfortable truth about environmentalism — that no one wants to discuss, especially in Iowa — is the amount of land used to feed and husband animals. To say it another way, the best thing we could do to mitigate … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, climate change, climate crisis
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After COP 28 Keep On The Sunny Side
I met with State Senator Joe Bolkcom before he retired to discuss ways to mitigate the effects of climate change. He told me something important as we finished our conversation. “Join a group and get active,” he said. What does … Continue reading
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Tagged #fossilfuels, climate change, climate crisis, COP 28, environment
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Electric Cars and Iowa
When we couldn’t get new parts for our 2002 Subaru in 2022, we decided to get a replacement car. First of all, it rots that basic suspension parts are unavailable from the manufacturer of a relatively new and otherwise fine … Continue reading
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Tagged #ActOnClimate, climate crisis, environment, Mariannette Miller-Meeks
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COP 28 And Beyond
Ahead of Joe Biden and Xi Jinping’s Nov. 15 meeting at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference in San Francisco, the parties pledged to strengthen their cooperation on climate change. The U.S. State Department released a statement detailing areas of agreement. … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Action, Environment
Tagged climate change, climate crisis, COP 28, environment, The Climate Reality Project
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Live Blogging The End Times
The climate crisis remains with us. A series of news articles reported stresses on Earth to which climate change contributed or caused: Canadian wildfires, heated ocean temperatures off the coast of Florida, the failure of a generation of Emperor Penguin … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, environment, The Climate Reality Project
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While The Climate Burns, MAGA Throws Gas On The Fire
What can you say? A raging fire on one of the most beautiful and isolated spots on earth (Maui) should be getting much attention and spurring people to action on the climate. Yet even as ever higher temperature records are … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Action, Climate Change, Environment, Republican Obstruction, Republican Policy
Tagged climate boiling, democracy doom loop, James Madison, Maui fires, Plato, right wing think tanks, stopping government action on climate
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Getting To True Net-Zero
It has been ten years since I first attended former vice president Al Gore’s training on the climate crisis. Since then, the organization surpassed 50,000 trained climate leaders located in 190 countries. Every one of them will be needed because … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate Action, climate change, environment, The Climate Reality Project
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