As a progressive voter, it won’t surprise anyone to learn that I’m disappointed that Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper has once again taken the upper hand in Canadian political discourse, outmaneuvering Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff in the process. Not only did Harper manage to avoid a Vote of Non-Confidence that would have brought down his [...]
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Bishop Luc Bouchard, Diocese of St. Paul, says that this planet is a gift from God, and that Alberta Tar Sands might be a sin against humanity, and against creation. He knows of what he speaks, as he ministers to people who live near the World’s Worst Environmental Disaster. Read the CBC story. Here’s what [...]
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Posted in Housekeeping on Jan 27th, 2009
We’re in this for the long haul, so we had our designer — the brilliant Tara Keleher*, a NY City art director — design posters and T-shirts to promote One Blue Marble. The sample designs have been approved, and final designs should be in our Cafe Press store when the week ends. We’ll be officially [...]
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A Week of Happy Dances It was just one week ago that Kristina and I were celebrating Barack Obama’s Inauguration as the 44th President of the United States of America with little happy dances around the living room. We’re still doing the same thing today. If you care about the environment and global warming, Obama [...]
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A sobering new study by American, Swiss, and French researchers in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences* is suggesting that climate change occurring now is is irreversible, so we need to act now to cut emissions dramatically, or we risk turning up the global thermostat and not being able to turn it down. [...]
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Posted in Politics, Social Justice on Jan 26th, 2009
Can we reverse it?
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The problems for the new Obama administration keep adding up; in the current issue of the prestigious journal Science, researchers led by the US Geological Society, have noted that forests in the US are dying at an alarming clip. Analysis of old-growth forests have showed that the mortality rate has more than doubled since 1955, [...]
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Poster by Darrin White With one bold stroke, President Barack Obama has changed the game. If Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff are not paying attention, Canada’s economy will soon be in tatters. How do I know? Easy. Just this week, Environment Minister Jim Prentice said that his government will work closely [...]
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Clean Technology and Climate Change Solutions Even during the heady first days of Obama’s presidency, it’s easy to get that discouraged over the rapid pace of global warming, and the bad news that Mother Earth seems to be sending to us with each and every news cycle. Frankly, we have so much ignorance to overcome, [...]
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Posted in Housekeeping on Jan 22nd, 2009
Our main web site at One Blue Marble has been in a beta stage for the last six weeks. Our first design was one of expediency, but now we’re getting ready for prime time. Please have a look and make sure that everything works. All comments and critiques are gratefully accepted. In particular, I would [...]
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