Below you'll find a list of all posts from May, 2017
May 31st, 2017 by Steve Hanley, Source: Think Progress, Fossil Fuel Groups Attempt To Flee Our Children’s Trust Lawsuit “API and its members will not come clean on the facts of climate change because they know it exposes them to liability for the damage they too have caused to the global climate system,” Julia Olson, co-lead counsel for the plaintiffs in the lawsuit and …
Originally Posted on MSNBC, Thursday, 25 May 2017 Wally Nowinski got his first car when he turned 16 in Michigan, the home of the U.S. auto industry. But after two years of living in New York City, he sold his wheels, using ride services, carsharing and bike sharing to get around. “My mom didn’t think I could do it. She thought I …
The Greatest Prayer: Rediscovering the Revolutionary Message of the Lord’s Prayer by John Dominic Crossan suggests—a radical manifesto and a hymn of hope for all humanity in language addressed to all the earth? 59 it presumes and proclaims the radical vision of justice that is the core of Israel’s biblical tradition. 62 the primary meaning of “justice” is not …
World Resources Institute, May 2017 A decarbonization roadmap recently published in Science outlines decadal targets that put into perspective the monumental progress we need to make to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and keep warming below 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F). The authors detail specific measures and incentives for the energy and transport sectors, but the agriculture and forestry sector, …
Originally stolen from euobserver.com By PETER TEFFER Would you hand in your car, if you knew that public transport in your city could be completely overhauled and made more attractive? Imagine if you could order a shared taxi with your smartphone, which would bring you door-to-door to your destination, without any transfers. You could book it in real-time, with a …
a new study from the Harvard School of Public Health finds that carbon dioxide (CO2) has a direct and negative impact on human cognition and decision-making. These impacts have been observed at CO2 levels that most Americans — and their children — are routinely exposed to today inside classrooms, offices, homes, planes, and cars. The relationship between temperature and the …
Thanks to In These Times for re-printing this post, which Tim Snyder shared from his page. Timothy Snyder is a professor of history at Yale University. He is also the author of Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning. Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism or communism. Our one advantage is …
By Dan Baum, Harper’s, April 2016 – a good accompaniment to Michael Moore’s film Where to Invade Next. In 1994, John Ehrlichman, the Watergate co-conspirator, unlocked for me one of the great mysteries of modern American history: How did the United States entangle itself in a policy of drug prohibition that has yielded so much misery and so few good results? …
Grist / Amelia Bates By Ask Umbra® on May 23, 2017, Grist cover story I never expected that the most controversial piece of green living advice I could deliver would be: “Meet your neighbors.” After all, you and your neighbors have so much in common! You share a street, a building stairwell, a bodega where you each buy the exact …
By Seth Miller, on Medium.com, Blogs on perspicacity.xyz, 25 May 2017 From WHMP / clipart.com It’s 2025, and 800,000 tons of used high strength steel is coming up for auction. The steel made up the Keystone XL pipeline, finally completed in 2019, two years after the project launched with great fanfare after approval by the Trump administration. The pipeline was built …