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Mobilizing a Climate Revolution – EcoJustice Radio

April 4, 2019 by Jack Eidt 0 comments

Massive climate disruption continues to strike all over the world, one disaster after another, droughts, wildfires, typhoons, mega-floods, with glaciers melting and methane escaping from deep under the permafrost. The UN IPCC said we have 12 more years to stabilize greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere to avoid runaway climate change. We need solutions to this problem to spark a climate revolution. Jessica Aldridge speaks with NASA climate scientist and author Peter Kalmus and Sam Berndt also a scientist and a coordinator of the Sunrise Movement Los Angeles.

Design, Urban Land

Defensible Space: My Wildfire-Appropriate Retrofit Journey – Part I

November 16, 2018 by Guest Columnist 1 comment

As the Western U.S. continues with massive wind-driven, high-intensity wildfires that often turn deadly, Naomi Pitcairn recommends retrofitting homes on the Wildland Urban Interface for fire-resistant resiliency. This is Part I of a three-part series.

climate change, zero hour, youth movement

EcoJustice Radio

EcoJustice Radio – This is Zero Hour – Episode 21

October 17, 2018 by The Outpost 0 comments

Young people are mobilizing on climate change as the generation that will inherit its various outcomes and crises. They organized a national day of action called “This is Zero Hour” which seeks to amplify young voices who are working on environmental issues in their communities. Episode Hosted by Mark Morris with guests Arielle Cohen, Gavin Pierce, and Ryanne Mena.

Climate, Environmental Issues

Confronting Wildfire: Retrofit Communities, Not Forests

September 17, 2018 by Guest Columnist 2 comments

As California continues with massive wind-driven, high-intensity wildfires that often turn deadly, the governmental and institutional response has been to thin forests and “grind up vegetation” to fight fires. Naomi Pitcairn points to a movement by plant community and wildfire experts led by the Richard Halsey of the Chaparral Institute to focus on protecting vulnerable communities rather than trying to control nature, which now faces extreme heatwaves and droughts from an unpredictable greenhouse-gas-warmed climate.

Rise for Climate, Los Angeles, SoCal 350

Climate, Politics and Advocacy

Rise for Climate Los Angeles: September 8

August 22, 2018 by The Outpost 0 comments

On September 8, the international Rise for Climate Day of Action is bringing people together for Climate, Jobs, and Justice, calling on governments, corporations, and organizations to initiate aggressive action on climate change, protect frontline communities, and create good jobs in the clean energy economy. Join us to Rise Together in Los Angeles on Saturday, September 8, in solidarity with events in San Francisco and around the globe that same day.

Climate, Earth

Anthropocene Arrives, Climate Collapses, and No One Cares

February 17, 2018 by The Outpost 2 comments

Clive Hamilton writes on how governments, people, corporations, the world continues to plan for the future as if climate scientists don’t exist. The greatest shame is the absence of a sense of tragedy.

Climate, Environmental Issues

Extreme Winds and Wildfires, On Overcoming California Climate Chaos

December 19, 2017 by Jack Eidt 3 comments

Jack Eidt writes on the California wildfires and their dangerous connection with climate change, melting of Arctic sea ice, and the drying out of the US West Coast. We must reduce our dependency on fossil fuels, get cracking on a just transition to an economy based on clean, efficient, renewable energy, and start making our homes and lives more extreme-climate-resilient.

Tag: Climate Change