This is a message to everyone who’s followed me so far. I’m currently about 2 months from the end of a year of teaching in Hunan Province in China—and two months away from the wide open road. This summer, I’ll bike more than 2,500 km across China in the first phase of the project that … Continue reading T-minus 2 Months: My Climate Story, A Sketch of My Message
Note: This will be the last of my weekly posts. I’ve found that in recent months that this deadline has begun to limit the project rather than pushing it further. Having it in place pushed me to establish a routine of writing, but now the short timeline is preventing me from working on longer-form pieces and planning … Continue reading An end to weekly posts? Here’s why.
An exciting future for Africa’s energy, but with mixed implications. http://mgafrica.com/article/2015-05-07-a-battery-with-a-big-impact-tesla Continue reading Africa’s next ‘leap frog’: Five big impacts the Tesla battery could have on the continent in future
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/05/07/the-gops-widening-effort-to-stop-environmental-policies-by-targeting-science/ http://www.npr.org/2015/05/11/404200241/two-guys-in-paris-aim-to-charm-the-world-into-climate-action Continue reading GOP targets science (WP); “Two Guys In Paris Aim To Charm The World Into Climate Action” (NPR)
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/apr/28/end-of-the-car-age-how-cities-outgrew-the-automobile?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=dlvr.it Can you advocate for a car-free future? What’s the best way to green a city? http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/may/06/dangers-ecogentrification-best-way-make-city-greener?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=dlvr.it Continue reading End of the car age: how cities are outgrowing the automobile
First, a small diversion from climatological difficulties: Some mornings, a minor leak in the u-bend of my kitchen sink would leave a trail across the floor. It didn’t matter much while the winter air stayed dry and conducive to evaporation, but then the spring humidity hit. For 4 consecutive mornings the puddle got bigger, and I finally got the nerve … Continue reading When Plumbing Fixes Don’t Go Quite as Expected, And: What if Corporations Weren’t Horrible?
The manifesto itself can be found here. More reality-based and coherent, a reply from the founder of Make Wealth History, Jeremy Williams, is here. Main points from the reply: “There’s a lot to like in their vision. They rightly point out how far we’ve come, and how many of the fears of previous generations of environmentalists … Continue reading An Ecomodernist Manifesto, and a Reply More Grounded in Reality
Note: If you haven’t yet tried to understand the perspectives of Baltimoreans who are not white and upper-middle class, please do that. Then I’ll try to contribute to an understanding of America, Reaganomics, and Injustice, based on my reading of Gustave Speth’s America the Possible. It’s a lotta text today, but please stick with me ’cause I’ve got something … Continue reading WEEKLY POST: Reaganomics and Injustice in the Light of Baltimore
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