AI & Cybersecurity Weekly Update | November 9–15, 2026 More Capable Technology, Greater Responsibility — and Reasons for Both Caution and Hope Good morning, and welcome to Green Tech Café, a place to pause, look beyond the technology headlines, and consider what these developments mean for our lives, our communities, and our shared future. On... Continue Reading →
This Week in Climate News: November 2–9, 2026
This is Version #1 - Version #2 can be found at adaptiveresiliency.info A planet under pressure, a world at a crossroads, and the choices that will shape our children's future. Opening Thoughts Some weeks in climate reporting leave us with more questions than answers. This was one of them. From the Arctic permafrost of northern... Continue Reading →
Methane Is Still Rising: Why the World Should Be Paying Much More Attention
Forget Halloween, this is some scary sh$t! A fact-checked look at the methane problem: how fast it is growing, where it comes from, what the newest science says about the recent surge, and why cutting it is one of the fastest climate wins available to us. There is a climate story that deserves far more... Continue Reading →
Hardship, Heat, and the Hour We Are In: Five Signals, One Message
How a study on childhood poverty, a rogue ocean wave, a video on the overheated brain, a planetary report card, and the economics of clean energy all point toward the same lesson: adaptive resiliency. Every week I read more than I could ever post about. Most of it lands, gets noted, and moves on. This... Continue Reading →
Truth Is a Shared Resource: Why Discerning What We Read Is an Act of Adaptive Resiliency
Truth Is a Shared Resource: Why Discerning What We Read Is an Act of Adaptive Resiliency In an age of storms, scrolls, and synthetic media, how carefully we vet what we read, and how thoughtfully we share it, may be one of the quietest and most important forms of courage left to us. Claude AI... Continue Reading →
Where Does Your AI Actually Run? Bionic, Local Models, and the Honest Case for Green AI
There is a question hiding underneath almost every conversation about artificial intelligence and the climate, and almost nobody asks it out loud. Where does the computing happen? When you type a prompt, that request usually travels away from you. It leaves your laptop, crosses a network, lands in a building you will never see, gets... Continue Reading →
What I Read This Morning: 14 Climate and Science Stories Worth Connecting
August 30, 2026 Some mornings I can move from one science story to the next and quickly realize that the most interesting part is not any single headline. It is the connections between them. This morning's reading moved from groundwater in Africa and Brazil to urban trees, extreme heat, wildfire smoke, ocean circulation, glacier hazards,... Continue Reading →
The Ballot Is Our Voice
Mail-In Voting, Democratic Guardrails, Ordinary Voters — and Why This Matters to the Climate Emergency I will begin with something simple: I am not a political or voting-law expert. I am learning. And today I found myself trying to understand a Supreme Court decision involving mail-in voting that, at first, sounded technical and distant. The... Continue Reading →
West Nile Virus Is Active in the United States: Protect People and Pets Now
...moved here from cCc. PUBLIC HEALTH ANNOUNCEMENT West Nile Virus Is Active in the United States: Protect People and Pets Now A proactive and reactive mosquito-safety notice for families, caregivers, pet guardians, and communities Published: August 20, 2026 The message is simple: do not panic, and do not dismiss the risk. West Nile virus is... Continue Reading →
The Cost of Coming Late: A Risk Assessment of a Four-Year Delay in the Net-Zero Transition
Before the government classifies the people working toward a sustainable, non-carbon world as "nut jobs," please read this. It reports what happens to a country that delays viable climate action for four years. And yes I have included a version for 7th grade reading level following this one... The Cost of Coming Late: A Risk... Continue Reading →
Global Climate Nudge: The Emergency Has No Borders
August 18, 2026 Climate news is usually delivered to us as a local story. A wildfire in one country. A flood somewhere else. A drought thousands of miles away. A failed harvest. A water shortage. An unusually hot ocean. Reported separately, they can look like unrelated events. Viewed globally, however, another picture begins to emerge.... Continue Reading →