Global warming, climate change, activism
Posted in Climate Change Consequences, Climate Change Science on Apr 28th, 2009
An update to this earlier OBM story… Here’s Reuters’s take: New York-Sized Ice Shelf Collapses. Time to redraw the map of Antarctica.
Posted in Activism, Astroturfing, Politics, USA on Apr 28th, 2009
Avaaz is raising money to run an ad about Exxon and the oil companies on CNN. You can help.
Posted in Climate Change Solutions, Politics, USA on Apr 27th, 2009
Diplomats from the world’s biggest GHG polluters are meeting at the US State Department this week trying to make progress on the Road to Copenhagen. The two-day meeting of major economies is meant to jump-start climate talks, and hopefully lead to a new international understanding in advance of the December deadline, when a new climate [...]
Posted in Alberta Tar Sands, Canada, Double Dumb Ass Award, Politics on Apr 24th, 2009
On Earth Day, Canada’s Environment Minister Jim Prentice issued the following statement: As Canada’s Environment Minister and an avid outdoorsman, I am committed to preserving and enhancing our environment for current and future generations. Canada faces challenges and opportunities on the environment. We need to build a dynamic and vibrant economy, while balancing the need [...]
Posted in Climate Change Consequences, Climate Change Science, USA on Apr 23rd, 2009
Anthropogenic climate change and a naturally occurring drought are imperiling one of the western world’s most vital water sources, the Colorado River, according to a new scientific study published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In fact, the study supports another released earlier this week — to be published in the Journal [...]
Let’s tell Canada — the World’s Colossal Fossil — to take its climate change responsibilities seriously! Sign the Oxfam Canada Petition.
Posted in Activism, Climate Change Consequences, Climate Change Science, Media, Social Justice on Apr 22nd, 2009
Imagine our world without literature. Whenever I can cobble moments together, I write. It’s my first, best thing. I have a middle reader under development that will be a pretty good book once I commit the final chapter to paper. It’s what I do with every stolen minute as we struggle through bankruptcy. I write [...]
Posted in Activism, Astroturfing, Global Warming Myths, Greenwashing, Media on Apr 21st, 2009
I often write that the science supporting global warming is every bit as strong as the science that proves smoking causes cancer. But I then go even further by linking the fossil fuel and tobacco industries, suggesting deeper sins, claiming that oil companies actually stole a page from the tobacco industry by hiring right-wing and [...]
Posted in Clean Technology, Climate Change Solutions, Energy Efficiency on Apr 13th, 2009
Better Place began with a $200 million venture capital investment, and the company has easily garnered that much again in enthusiastic publicity. Since its founding in late 2007, barely a week goes by without the electric vehicle-and-infrastructure project cutting a new deal that makes business headlines in newspapers across the world. Why? Certainly, founder Shai [...]
Posted in Activism, Housekeeping on Apr 13th, 2009
We have a Facebook group. And every once in awhile, I remember to tweet. You can also follow OBM if you’ve activated NetworkedBlogs at Facebook. Some other cool, progressive Facebook Groups or Facebook Pages: Stop Stephen Harper’s CBC Agenda One Million Acts of Green David Suzuki Nature Challenge 350.org Media Matters for America Project ABC [...]