Is it humor?
No, no. I’m not going to start questioning Starre’s seriousness about global warming – I think the picture is very cute. However, this video by Sarah Silverman is supposed to be humor about global warming. Maybe it’s because I don’t like Sarah Silverman, but I just don’t find the whole…
Global Warming Humor
Hey, if you can’t laugh about it….
Cooperation between Big Business and Environmental Groups
What do DuPont, National Resource Defense Council, and Lehmen Brothers have in common? Normally not too much…but now they make up 3 of the 14 member strong US Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), launched in January of this year. The Partnership was formed to address global warming and emissions where the Feds…
Bush Misses the Boat
By Guest-Blogger Brian Howard In his 2007 State of the Union address, President George W. Bush told Congress and the country that “nothing is more important at this moment in our history than for America to succeed in the Middle East, to succeed in Iraq and to spare the American…
School District Moratorium on “An Inconvenient Truth”
It’s Getting Hot in Here, reports of a moratorium on “An Inconvenient Truth” at Federal Way School District in Washington. The school requires teachers who show the film in their class to provide a “credible, legitimate opposing view” to the scientific evidence regarding global warming. Anyone know of any?
Global Warming is Bad, but Wal-Mart is Good
I thought all you Eco Chicks should really check this Op/Ed from the NYTimes out in case you haven’t seen it…. December 22, 2006 Op-Ed Columnist And the Color of the Year Is … By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN I know that you should never generalize about global warming from your…
Report: Climate Change–Local Solutions to a Global Crisis
Last week, I flew home to New England to spend the holidays with my family. It seems that while I’ve been hemmed in by the Los Angeles freeway system, my parents were overtaking me on the environmental superhighway. “We’re going to a town meeting about global warming on Saturday [Dec.…
Supreme Court Begins Global Warming Case
Last week I saw a motley crew of people in a long line in front of the Supreme Court. I wondered what could draw such a variety of citizens to one place of protest? I looked in the NY Times for a clue. “Ah”, I realized, “its the environment”. A few…
SkiGreen MiniTags
Tina Basich Love riding or skiing but hate how driving all the way to the mountain makes you feel sooooo guilty? Besides finding out if a local ski center has a bus to the mountains (my local shop does one-day bus trips that include a lift ticket at a discount),…
Lets Be Clear
Canada has been dealing with some rough water issues lately, and the David Suzuki Foundation is taking note of it. Since late last week residence of Vancouver have been facing mudslides over taking their resevoirs where the city gets their water. The extremely high level of turbidity has caused an…