Category Archives: Environment

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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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 →

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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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Let’s Remember Democratic Policies

I am so tired of reading and writing about Trump and his MAGA world. I am so sick of turning on the TV only to see the latest rumor being treated as ‘serious news’ such as the recent distraction using … Continue reading →

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Hot, Hotter, Hottest

(5:54) If for some reason you have been hidden away in a cave here is some news you need to know: Monday was the hottest average day ever on planet earth. That is until Tuesday which was a bit hotter … Continue reading →

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Sixth Mass Extinction?

This is hardly news to most of the readers here who are very conscious of the dire straits that the world is in environmentally. But since it is the New Year and the fact that this bit of reality seems … Continue reading →

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Update on Iowa CO2 Pipelines

While driving to the Democratic office in North Liberty after a shift of door knocking, I passed a seemingly endless line of black tank cars waiting to be loaded with ethanol or corn syrup in Cedar Rapids. That Iowa’s vast … Continue reading →

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Electric Vehicles In Iowa

After the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the Iowa Department of Transportation has funding and is working on a plan to to deploy more electric vehicle charging stations across the state. Once the plan is finalized, it goes to … Continue reading →

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Bill McKibben Interview By Ed Fallon

On July 11, Ed Fallon interviewed author and climate activist Bill McKibben on his program The Fallon Forum, after release of the new book The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at his Suburban … Continue reading →

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Environmental Round Up – It’s Getting Hotter

I’ve written about the environment on Blog for Iowa since my first post on Feb. 25, 2009. Never in the time since then has there been more happening regarding degradation of our environment. As Scott Duncan’s graphic above indicates, it … Continue reading →

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