The Gross Society. Seeing only its title, a prospective reader might guess this essay is about our nation’s epidemic of obesity.
Or could it be a sarcastic observation on the evolution of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society? Climate Change. The Crazy True Story Of How A Handful Of Climate Advocates Painted A Red Town Green. Knoxville, Tennessee.
(Credit: Flickr user Alex Banakas) You might be surprised that the same town that Jeff Foxworthy calls home is a green haven. How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic: Responses to the most common skeptical arguments on global warming. Warren Buffett Says Coal Will Be Replaced : Compass. According to a report from Bloomberg News, Warren Buffett, the U.S.'s second wealthiest person and most-respected investor, said this week that it's time to start planning for the end of coal.
Why We Divested - Jim Antal. To many, our resolution to divest from fossil fuels was a scandal.
So much so that months before the national Synod of the United Church of Christ (UCC) would consider it a well-funded, all-out campaign to defeat the resolution was underway. It didn’t have to be that way. Oil barrel filled with money. Illustration courtesy BobbyWjr/shutterstock.com As soon as I read Bill McKibben’s Rolling Stone article on the terrifying math of global warming it was clear to me that the church needed to provide leadership. Over Thanksgiving I drafted a resolution calling upon the UCC to divest from fossil fuel companies. I immediately wrote to the CEOs of the two major investment agencies for the UCC: the Pension Board and the United Church Funds (UCF). Budweiser Partners With River Network. Brewery City Projects | What You Can Do On Saturday, June 5, people across the globe came together to participate in events and programs recognizing World Environment Day (WED).
In honor of this world-wide celebration, Anheuser-Busch and its Budweiser brand donated $150,000 to River Network to support watershed and conservation projects in each of the company’s 12 U.S. brewery cities. WED is the day set aside by the United Nations to create awareness of the environment and encourage participation in sustainability programs. Saving water costs city residents. ST.
LOUIS • When Anheuser-Busch cut water use here by 540 million gallons this past year, saving nearly $400,000, Earl Lee Young could do nothing but watch his utility bills rise. Young, 65, a city resident on Social Security, is particularly concerned about water costs. "Every year it's been going up! " exclaimed Young, after a 12 percent hike in July. In 2004, his annual bill was $180. Businesses across St. But in cities such as St. Unlike businesses, city homes aren't metered.
COMPANY NEWS - Busch Shuts Plant Because of Oil Slick. Mississippi River Clean Up. ST.
LOUIS (KTVI) – About 250 volunteers spent three hours cleaning up the Mississippi River in St. Louis, Saturday; 75 of them Anheuser-Busch workers. Www.anheuser-busch.com/uploads/Chapter-2-Ingredients.pdf. Many Species Will Have To Evolve 10,000 Times Faster To Adapt To Climate Change, Study Finds. By Katie Valentine "Many Species Will Have To Evolve 10,000 Times Faster To Adapt To Climate Change, Study Finds" A Rock Frog, a species in decline due to a combination of climate change, a fungus that has been killing amphibians around the world, and habitat loss.
(Credit: AP/Ricardo Arduengo) Climate change is moving too quickly for many vertebrate species to adapt, a new study has found. The study, published in the journal Ecology Letters, found species would have to evolve 10,000 times faster than they have in the past in order to keep up with the earth’s rapidly changing climate, a rate of evolution that the study’s authors say is “largely unprecedented based on observed rates.”
Movements without leaders: What to make of life on an overheating planet. The history we grow up with shapes our sense of reality -- it’s hard to shake.
If you were young during the fight against Nazism, war seems a different, more virtuous animal than if you came of age during Vietnam. Shutdown of 150th coal plant reminder that so-called 'war on coal' must not be war on coal workers.
Fast%20Clean%20Cheap. Climate Justice Hub: A Basecamp For Building The Climate Movement This Summer. “The beauty of this whole thing is that because it’s the greatest challenge that we’re facing, it’s also the greatest opportunity to come together and reclaim community” Dorian Williams, SJSF Our Vision for the Climate Justice Hub This summer, we want to launch a project called “the Climate Justice Hub,” a student-run community space in Boston to intensify the climate movement in New England.
The Hub will be active 7-days-a-week from June through August of 2013, in Somerville, MA. The space will help maintain the momentum among local students in Boston, who have been leading incredible direct actions all year. From locking themselves in TransCanada’s corporate office to organizing thousands to attend the Forward on our Future march in Washington, DC, students and young people in New England are putting their time and bodies on the line to build a climate justice movement.
Students participate in nonviolent direct action protesting the Keystone XL pipeline. MO Love, Forward on Climate, and the Social Tipping Point for Climate Action. In February of 2009, as an excited but scared freshman, I boarded a mini-van and drove 15 straight hours from my college in St. Louis to Washington DC. I was attending my first big event for climate justice, Power Shift 2009, and I was looking forward to a conference that I thought would be a fun weekend in a new city.
Instead, the conference changed my life.
Climate change effects. 350.org. Farmers respond to climate change. This week’s article was written by CUESA's Volunteer of the Month Janet McGarry. City dwellers may have enjoyed the sunshine during one of the driest winters on record, but the unseasonable weather has many farmers worried, and with good reason: their livelihoods hang in the balance. Fluctuations in weather do not necessarily indicate changes in climate, but climate change does impact the weather. Fearing the current weather patterns could be the new normal, California farmers are paying close attention to the forecast. Global Warming's Terrifying New Math. If the pictures of those towering wildfires in Colorado haven't convinced you, or the size of your AC bill this summer, here are some hard numbers about climate change: June broke or tied 3,215 high-temperature records across the United States.
The Fossil Fuel Resistance. Victory at Hand for the Climate Movement?
Keystone XL. Carbon Fix Foundation. 350.org. Can't Face the Math: On Climate Science, We're All Karl Rove on the Night of the Election. Republished from grist.org By David Roberts. A climate activist’s guide to moral worldviews.