"Some women/men draw a circle around themselves and protect those who are in it: Wife and children. Some women/men draw a bigger circle around themselves and protect more: Mother, uncles, aunts, grandchildren. Some women/men draw a big, big circle around themselves and protect many, many more. There comes a point in a woman's/man's life when... Continue Reading →
Green New Deal
Green New Deal Information I strongly believe the Green New Deal is also roughly a proposal that not only the government gives life to in the form of action on their part (top down), but we-the-people give life to as well (bottom up). It is all hands-on-deck to save a damaged planet, that is now... Continue Reading →
How do ocean currents work?
Dive into the science of ocean currents (including the Global Conveyor Belt current), and find out how climate change affects them. -- In 1992, a cargo ship carrying bath toys got caught in a storm. Shipping containers washed overboard, and the waves swept 28,000 rubber ducks and other toys into the North Pacific. But they... Continue Reading →
Green News Report
Host: Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen | Hands down, one of the best sources to obtain Climate News plus podcasts and more. The Climate News are posted on Tuesdays, however we are hoping that eventually it will be more often. They are are awesome and should be hoisted up as a primary source of primary... Continue Reading →
I’m asking you to get informed …
If you like to worry about things—and most people do—you are living at a great time. Climate change is coming, and it is coming right at you. Regardless of where you are on Earth, you will live to see your life or the lives of your kids and their friends change due to the... Continue Reading →
IT’S THE SPRING of 2043, and Gina is graduating college with the rest of her class. She had a relatively stable childhood. Her parents availed themselves of some of the year of paid family leave they were entitled to, and after that she was dropped off at a free child care program. Pre-K and K-12 were also free,... Continue Reading →
WITH A GREEN NEW DEAL, HERE’S WHAT THE WORLD COULD LOOK LIKE FOR THE NEXT GENERATION
100 million barrels of oil every single day…
Today we use 100 million barrels of oil every single day. There are no politics to change that. There are no rules to keep that oil in the ground. So we can no longer save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have changed. So we have not come here to beg... Continue Reading →
In a Democratic clash on Capitol Hill, progressives are pushing an ambitious plan to wean the U.S. off fossil fuels, boost renewables and build a "smart" grid. Meet the "Green New Deal." The proposal, drawing inspiration from President Franklin Roosevelt's Depression-era New Deal, is one that progressives — led by Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), a... Continue Reading →
What exactly is the ‘Green New Deal’?
moral collapse…
“Carbon emissions have now accumulated to the point where avoiding warming by 2 degrees Celsius is impossible. Even under optimistic assumptions about the speed with which countries might respond, it now seems likely that the world will warm by 4 degrees Celsius or more, which will transform the conditions of life on the planet and... Continue Reading →
ENERGY | ENERGY STORAGE (DISTRIBUTED) RANKING AND RESULTS BY 2050 #77 AN ENABLING TECHNOLOGY—COST AND SAVINGS ARE EMBEDDED IN RENEWABLE ENERGY There is an energy transition under way, one as radical as the adoption of caol, oil, and gas at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Most would describe the transformation as the shift away... Continue Reading →
