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Five Earth Days later
BP is claiming that the “…Gulf environment (is) returning to pre-spill conditions,” although the Deepwater Horizon oil spill Natural Resource Damage Assessment Trustees (NRDA Trustees) are still...
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Prince Ea and an apology to future generations
Celebrity activist and spoken word artist Prince Ea launched his newest online video, “Dear Future Generations: Sorry” to motivate individuals to take immediate action to stop climate change by...
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France’s green artistic panache
Leave it to the French to make something as mundane as a wind turbine into a work of art by installing two of them on the Eiffel Tower. Yes, that Eiffel Tower, which itself is a monument to both...
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EPA takes big step to regulate aircraft GHGs
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) intends to issue a scientific finding that greenhouse gases from aircraft pose a risk to human health, paving the way for regulating emissions from the U.S....
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A Shell game?
When the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell chats up the importance of renewable energy as part of the globe’s future energy mix, one might well be a tad suspicious—after all this is an oil major speaking,...
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Exxon Oils the Palms of Climate Science Deniers
Word that ExxonMobil is still funding climate science deniers comes as no surprise but does reveal much about how feckless and arrogant the company is. Basically, the oil major is playing with us while...
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Obama’s mixed message on climate change and arctic drilling
President Obama is traveling to Arctic Alaska this week to call for urgent action on climate change, but—and there’s always a but these days—his journey also comes in the context of his recent decision...
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Pope Francis: Care for our common home (1)
Admit it: how much of Pope Francis’ Encyclical Letter on climate change, Laudato Si’, have you read? I admit I have read some parts of it and have certainly read about it, but here’s a thought: let’s...
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Pope Francis: Care for our common home (2)
Here’s the next installment of our close read of Pope Francis’ Encyclical Letter on climate change, Laudato Si’. We left off last time at Paragraph 8. In the Saint Francis of Assisi section, whose name...
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Pope Francis: Care for our common home (3)
Here’s the next installment of our close reading of Pope Francis’ Encyclical Letter on climate change, Laudato Si’. Chapter One: What Is Happening To Our Common Home The continued acceleration of...
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Pope Francis: Care for our common home (4)
Here’s the next installment of our close read of Pope Francis’ Encyclical Letter on climate change, Laudato Si’. (Note: emphasis added by me) Climate as a common good The climate is a common good,...
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On a personal note…
Willowdown Books is pleased to announce the poem wow you have by William DiBenedetto has been chosen for inclusion in the international poetry anthology THE POETIC BOND V CELBRATING FIVE YEARS OF...
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COP21 a cop-out or an opt-in?
It’s been awhile, but in the great scheme of things not that long, and my absence here lately is of no great import. Things have changed in the past few months, including an engagement, a...
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The sordid whack-a-mole nature of climate change denial
It’s all about doubt when it comes to climate change, no matter what the science is telling us. The playbook is tried and true as illustrated in the 2014 film, Merchants of Doubt—if you can create...
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Safe battery tech prevents “thermal runaway”
If it gets too hot, get out of the battery! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a lithium-ion battery that shuts down automatically as it begins to overheat. Lithium-ion batteries are...
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Airlines alerted to assess lithium battery risks
A few days after my most recent post on safe battery technology, Safe battery tech prevents “thermal runaway”, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a “safety alert” urging U.S. and foreign...
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Eat more stuff – we need the fuel
And while we’re at it let’s get goats into the act. But first, UCLA researchers are studying the use of the human feces as biofuels to power cars. David Wernick, graduate student of UCLA, notes that...
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United Airlines’ biofuel initiative
United Airlines has launched an initiative that will use biofuel to help power flights between Los Angeles and San Francisco. And according to a Washington Post report, United eventually plans to...
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Ready for the circular economy?
And intelligent assets? A report from the World Economic Forum says the rapid and pervasive development of digital technologies, along with an understanding of circular economy principles, will...
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ExxonMobil: SEC says vote! vote!
Environmental Leader reported last week on a Securities and Exchange Commission ruling that ExxonMobil must allow its shareholders to vote on a climate change resolution. That would be a first for the...
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