Tag Archives: global climate change

Operation Foggy Monocle

By Mark | July 8, 2012

In the wake of a global warming-related rant that I posted a few days ago, it occurred to me that nothing is likely to change, at least not in a substantive way, until the men at the top begin to feel the same oppressive, painfully searing heat that the rest of us have been feeling [...]

Posted in Environment, Global Warming, Special Projects, Sustainability, Uncategorized | Also tagged air conditioning, call to action, crazy ideas that just might work, direct action, Global Warming, Mark's art ideas, Mark's big ideas, Operation Foggy Monocle | 10 Comments

My thoughts on the heat wave… Do we continue to sit in this pan of water as it begins to boil our flesh from our bones, or do we leap out, and go for the throat of the man holding the pan?

By Mark | July 6, 2012

The last that I heard, over 4,500 communities had experienced record high temperatures this week. Apparently, streets are literally buckling in some places, like in St. Louis, where they’ve now surpassed the 100-degree mark for eight consecutive days. Several dozen people have died already and it looks as though the nation’s corn crop, among others, [...]

Posted in Environment, Michigan, Predictions, Rants, Science | Also tagged AC, air conditioning, Al Gore, cherries, corn, Global Warming, global warming denial, heat, Hiero's Journey, high-fructose corn syrup, St Louis, Sterling Lanier, Traverse City, Traverse City Mango Festival | 23 Comments

Johnny Lupinacci on this week’s “Activism and Education: A Celebration at EMU” activities

By Mark | March 18, 2012

I just heard about a big student activism event taking place this Thursday and Friday on the campus of EMU, and reached out the organizers with a few questions. What follows is my exchange with EMU doctoral student Johnny Lupinacci. MARK: Can you tell me a little about this event coming up at EMU? JOHNNY: [...]

Posted in Education, Environment, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 100 years ago today, ableism, activism, Activism and Education: A Celebration at EMU, Ann Arbor Free School, Ann Arbor Free Skool, apathy, Aric McBay, baby boomers, Bringing Down Civilization, Civilization and Resistance, community activism, community building, consumerism, decolonization, Deep Green Resistance, Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet, Derrick Jensen, Earth Liberation Front, Eastern Michigan University, eco justice, EcoEats, education reform, EMU, EMU College of Education, Erica Mooney, Fabayo Manzira, fear, G.R.E.E.N., Generation X, GenX, hip hop, If A Tree Falls, individualism, isolation, Janine Palms, Jean Twenge, John Lupinacci, Johnny Lupinacci, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Lierre Keith, local food, Malik Yakini, Millennials, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Ypsilanti, Orion, permaculture, Porter Lecture, racism, radical sustainability, Reskilling Festival, S.E.P.E., seedbombs, self-interest, sexism, social justice, speciesm, student activism, students today aren't worth a damn, Superhero Training Academy, Sustainability | 11 Comments

Neil DeGrasse Tyson blinding Bob Lutz with the incontrovertible truth of science

By Mark | March 5, 2012

Everyone’s favorite super cool scientist, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, had what I found to be an interesting exchange with GM’s former chairman, Bob Lutz, on Bill Maher’s program a couple of days ago. The ball got rolling when Lutz, who, as you’ll recall, was quoted in 2004 as saying that global warming was “a total crock [...]

Posted in Education, Environment, Politics, Science, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1941, anti-science, astrophysicists, Bible, Bob Lutz, cognitive dissonance, crocks of shit, Florida, Florida Keys, General Motors, Global Warming, global warming denial, hurricanes, memories of childhood, Mitt Romney, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Obamacare, reality deficient, republican primary, RIck Santorum, Scarsdale, Science, the origins of man, the universe | 14 Comments

Dr. Guy McPherson, making the case for living off-grid in Ypsilanti

By Mark | February 18, 2012

Later today, at 6:00 PM, University of Arizona emeritus professor of Natural Resources and the Environment Guy McPherson will be speaking at the Gilbert Residence in Ypsilanti (203 South Huron Street) about his new book, Walking Away from Empire, and the steps that he’s taken to extract himself from what he sees as an American [...]