This quote comes from a recorded interview Hugh Hewitt had with Mr. Trump on September 21, 2015. (No Pinocchios!) And, there have been other interviews to the same effect. Mr. Trump has pledged to cancel U.S. participation in the Paris …

“I’m not a believer in man-made global warming.” –Donald Trump, President-elect Read more »

As I draft this post, the climate talks in Paris are coming down to the wire. In the Winter 2015 issue of “Columbia Magazine” is a piece where Scott Barrett, a professor of natural resources economics there, is interviewed. He’s internationally …

Game Theory Applied to Climate Change Negotiations Read more »

(I prepared the following piece for a news outlet that lost its funding too soon thereafter.) “Resilience” read the sign board at the historic African-American Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, a modest 2-story structure in a minority neighborhood near my office in …

Taking on Climate Change Through Resilience. Read more »

The venerated National Geographic magazine sells itself to a Rupert Murdoch entity. Good fit for either/both? Did you see this news item? Another traditional print media source going down or a still-coveted brand now at risk?   Washington Post writer …

Whaddyathink? National Geographic > Rupert Murdoch Read more »

From the U. N.’s sustainable development website, co-lyricist Natasha Bedingfield says: “Many people turn a blind eye, arguing that everything is OK environmentally. The song reminds us that having ownership of our world means taking care of it. With this song we wanted …

“Love Song to the Earth.” McCartney, Bon Jovi, Crow and Others Sing Anthem for Action in Advance of the U.N.’s Climate Change Meeting in December. Read more »

While not suffering from a shortage of sustainable buildings/environmental/lifestyle material to blog about, I’m bringing to today’s post an article of very high resonance for me…and, I hope, for you readers too. It’s written by a journalist/author for whom I …

Highly Irregular for This Blog… Read more »

(<< good one, eh?) A notorious, if not famous, climate-denier is the man who just took over again as Chairman of the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee, Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.) Remember his 2012 book, The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming …

“Americans Fall into Two Basic Camps.” (about climate change, Part II) Read more »

On good days, I’m even a bit curious about “climate-deniers,” as they’re called in some corners. Self: How can they think that way? Kinda amazing. Other days I feel frustrated because from what I’ve learned thus far on the matter …

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Wow! Pope Francis is planning to release sometime this summer an encyclical on the environment. What an important voice to be heard… According to a tagline about it in today’s edition of the Baltimore Sun: “U. S. conservatives are attacking …

“…it is man who has slapped nature in the face.” –Pope Francis Read more »