Tag Archives: Climate Change

Republicans realize that climate change can’t be fought forever

By Mark | March 2, 2010

It took about 25 years, but reality finally caught up to the right.
In 1987, I was in the audience for a debate on global warming held in Washington, DC. Reagan was our President at the time, and it was my first exposure to the subject. I’m cannot recall who was on the panel. Al Gore, [...]

Posted in Environment, Politics | Also tagged , , | 7 Comments

Local Transition Town visioning session scheduled for February 1

By Mark | January 24, 2010

I’ve written quite a bit here over the last few years on the Transition Town movement. For those not familiar with the initiative, it involves the preparation and certification of towns attempting to address the duel challenges of climate change and peak oil proactively. It basically involves analyzing local food production, energy use, etc, and [...]

Posted in Agriculture, Alternative Energy, Ann Arbor, Food, Sustainability, Ypsilanti, energy | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Obama’s Backing Raises Hopes for Climate Pact

By Mark | March 1, 2009

Cause to be encouraged, from this morning’s New York Times:

Until recently, the idea that the world’s most powerful nations might come together to tackle global warming seemed an environmentalist’s pipe dream.
The Kyoto Protocol, signed in 1997, was widely viewed as badly flawed. Many countries that signed the accord lagged far behind their targets in curbing [...]

Posted in Environment, Global Warming, Predictions | Also tagged , , , , | Leave a comment