Gov. Brown: Honor service of CPUC Commissioner Ferron
Probably the friendliest commissioner on California’s Public Utilities Commission which makes decisions on energy requirements and what kinds of energy we use in California, announced this week he is leaving the PUC because of his battle with cancer. He issued a parting statement that is powerful in calling on the rest of the CPUC to […]
Press Release: San Diegans Disappointed in Preliminary CPUC Pio Pico Decision to Lock County Residents into Expensive, Unnecessary Dirty Fossil Fuel Power
Say a clean energy future is better for our wallets, our health, and averting climate change impacts SanDiego350.org (SD350) opposes a preliminary decision reached 1/6/14 by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to approve the Pio Pico Power Plant to be located in Otay Mesa. Nestor, San Diego resident Ken Brucker stated, “These industries have been polluting […]
Young Scientists: Hope from Climate Summit
“The world needs your voice. Use it.” Natalya Gallo, Ocean Scientists for Informed Policy As a middle-aged scientist who wishes our society would make decisions based on reality, I get discouraged watching middle-aged politicians play power games while we keep burning coal and oil, pumping heat-trapping carbon into the atmosphere, and hurting our children. […]
Review: The Green Bible
Published by Harper-Collins, The Green Bible has a cover of 100% all-natural cotton-linen, symbolizing its Earth-nurturing orientation. The translation used is the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV), 1999, but the volume’s contents offer more than just another version of the Bible itself. The Green Bible is a “green-letter edition,” the green font serving to highlight […]
Pipeline Visions
The Keystone pipeline project will save America. It will be a testament to our values of entrepreneurial virtue and economic prosperity … or so one hears from its proponents. But the double mirror of history, while it allows us to look back in chagrin at our follies, also urges us – for the future’s sake […]
Review: “What If We Never Run Out of Oil?”
In the feature article of the May issue of The Atlantic, What If We Never Run Out of Oil?, contributing editor Charles C. Mann lays out his vision of what the future holds for a petroleum-powered planet. The descriptor on the magazine’s cover reads, “Why the fossil-fuel boom is good for America, bad for Saudi […]
Satirical Poem
Mrs. Man She’s like the weather, he laughs, moody and unpredictable; but maybe she, like the sky and the sea, has to accept what he does, this Man who dresses her up in jeweled cities and keeps her warm during winter with carbon blankets and methane booze. She’s like the weather, he laughs, moody and […]
Global Warming Stalled?
WHERE THE “MISSING HEAT” HAS GONE The years since the turn of the 21st century have seen a temporary lull, or pause, in the rise of global atmospheric temperatures. Yet the causes of rising temperatures — especially the burning of fossil fuels that increases the atmosphere’s CO2 burden — are still with us. So where […]
The Bronze Bird
http://www.propublica.org/blog/item/ photo-of-the-day-pelicans-drenched-in-oil http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/ caught_in_the_oil.html The Bronze Bird After the taxidermist ties up his work, immerse the pelican in molten metal, an elegant bronze the color of oil — swirly on water, deadly on feathers. Over long months oxidation draws from the bronze a verdigris patina, color of the gulf he flew […]
Not Just for Tree Huggers
Citizen’s Guides to Climate Change: How to Sort it All Out without Getting a PhD This posting is the third in a series on how you can figure out what’s going on with climate change, without having to get a PhD in climatology and without going crazy from the conflicting messages in the media. My […]