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Coming in Fall 2022 – The Fifth Fedora Anthology
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Posted on May 1, 2022 | No Comments - Indigenous Peoples of Mexico Unite Against Corporate Mega-Projects
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WilderUtopia in 102 Languages
‘Medicine Walk’ Featured in SBLitJo
Santa Barbara Literary Journal released ‘Bellatrix: Volume 3’ in June 2019, which among adventurous fiction, poetry, essays, and lyrics, features an excerpt of Jack Eidt’s psychic-animism fiction, Medicine Walk. Buy the book!
Climate Archive
Robert Haw: Overcoming Climate Disaster with a Carbon Tax
Posted on May 3, 2013 | No CommentsEarth's climate is changing rapidly posing grave concerns for sustaining life on the planet. We must first drop the denial of scientific evidence and mounting climate disasters, and adopt a Carbon Fee and Dividend, which will spur a transition to clean, renewable energy.A Word With My Congressman on Keystone – By Peter Jefferson Nichols
Posted on April 17, 2013 | No CommentsDear Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon, I received your letter in response to my earlier note imploring you to do all you can to prevent the completion of the Keystone XL Pipeline. Your words express your intent to do exactly the opposite of what I had asked. And to be frank, your words piss me off.Fees on Carbon in the Era of Trans-Pacific Partnership – By Peter Jefferson Nichols
Posted on April 4, 2013 | No CommentsThe revenue generated from a Carbon Tax, which should really be called a fee, would be returned to the citizenry, either through reductions in taxes or monthly dividends. That money would offset any increase in the cost of gas at the pump and would off-set already exorbitant financial stress caused by carbon release (i.e. medical bills and (un)natural disaster relief).Word to the President: Action on Climate and Keystone Now!
Posted on February 13, 2013 | 3 CommentsJoin the largest climate change rally in history on Sunday, February 17th, with tens of thousands converging on Washington DC and solidarity marches in Los Angeles and across the country to demand: "Solve the climate crisis! Take a stand, Mr. President!"Morey Wolfson: Addressing Climate Change in a World of Denialism
Posted on January 31, 2013 | 1 CommentTaking action on the proven science of climate change requires overcoming obfuscation from the fossil fuel polluters lobby in order to implement a policy of increased efficiency and conservation, coupled with a clean, renewable energy plan. A CO2 fee and dividend system could help level the relative cost of renewables, creating the political will to kick the fossil fuel habit.Jan Freed: Mother Nature’s Climate Wrath Will Be Costly
Posted on December 28, 2012 | No CommentsThe US has been through hell with unprecedented drought, fires and floods, the most costly in history. Chance variation? The pattern of disasters and extreme weather evens beat the odds of your neighbor winning the lottery twice in a row.Chasing Ice: The New “Inconvenient Truth” – Arctic Melting Before Our Eyes
Posted on December 10, 2012 | 5 CommentsDr. James Hansen: We can fix this. The answer is a price on carbon. We must make the price of fossil fuels honest, reflecting their cost to society including the economic devastation wrought by storms like Sandy, the toll on farmland and ecosystems, as well as priceless human lives.Robert Haw: Taking Steps Against Climate Change
Posted on November 24, 2012 | 2 CommentsIt’s like a Gary Larson cartoon. Fires, floods, and droughts keep coming and we laugh them off, though the joke might be on us. We must all make positive personal and political contributions to solving the climate crisis before it's too late.Bangladesh: A Flooding, Mega-Urbanizing, Climate Trap
Posted on October 7, 2012 | No CommentsIn Dhaka, climate change refugees are moving from the countryside and into squalid slums due to repeated monsoonal floods that have rendered traditional farmland unusable. A new documentary by Ami Vitale from the Knight Center for International Media wades through the floods, looking for solutions.Vicki Kirschenbaum: Legislation Can Stop Global Warming
Posted on September 29, 2012 | 5 CommentsVicki Kirschenbaum of Citizens Climate Lobby advocates for legislation that puts a fee on carbon pollution to stop global warming. This would spur energy conservation, create incentives for investment in renewables, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and reduce the devastating environmental impacts of burning fossil fuels.Bryan Killett: Jumpstart a Clean Energy Economy and Cool the Climate
Posted on September 2, 2012 | 2 CommentsRising CO2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels has resulted in extreme weather and economic danger. A revenue neutral fee and dividend plan could spur a clean energy industrial revolution and reduce global warming.Extreme Weather Disasters: Last Call at Club Fossil Fuel – By Mark Reynolds
Posted on July 13, 2012 | 4 CommentsExtreme weather events, drought, wildfire, torrential rains, tornadoes, hurricanes, attributable to human-caused global warming, are costing society and insurers bilions of dollars worldwide. Mark Reynolds from Citizens Climate Lobby argues it is time for a carbon fee and dividend to even the market for fossil fuels and encourage clean renewable energy alternatives.Warming World: Wrong Climate for Damming Rivers
Posted on November 30, 2011 | No CommentsThe COP17 climate meeting in Durban, South Africa, is themed “Saving Tomorrow Today.” The environmental impact of hydroelectric dams in Africa and beyond places tomorrow’s ecosystem sustainability at risk.Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline: Climate Game Over
Posted on November 7, 2011 | 7 CommentsWhile thousands surrounded the White House, a hundred people marched through downtown Los Angeles in solidarity calling for Obama to reject the 1,700-mile tar sands oil pipeline from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast.Mountain West: Forest Death Affects Climate Moderation
Posted on October 4, 2011 | 3 CommentsPines of the Rockies are dying, wildfires racing across the Southwest deep into Texas, and Colorado's aspens have declined due to lack of water. Worldwide the problem stretches from Southern Africa, the Amazon, Siberia, Algeria, and Australia. Without forest, levels of carbon dioxide rises and the climate will continue to warm.Inuit People: Melting Ice, Shifting Stars, North not North
Posted on September 24, 2011 | No CommentsInuit communities, elders and hunters, speak regarding social and ecological impacts of a warming Arctic and their conception of poles shifting, winds different, stars unrecognized. A Labrador Inuit Aurora Borealis myth illuminates their traditional connection with the stars.Rainforest Wilt: Drought in the Amazon Has Long-Term Effects
Posted on April 20, 2011 | 2 CommentsThe Amazon Rainforest experienced a devastating drought in 2010, increasing its emission of greenhouse gases, endangering its role as a global climate balance.Nature: Extreme Weather Linked to Greenhouse Gas Levels
Posted on February 17, 2011 | 4 CommentsTwo Studies in the Journal of Nature show that climate warming is responsible for extreme weather events, directly linked with rising greenhouse gas levels.Coming Disaster: Peak Oil and Climate Change
Posted on February 11, 2011 | 3 CommentsPeak Oil is the point at which petroleum production reaches its greatest rate just before going into perpetual decline. In “Peak Oil and a Changing Climate,” a new video series from The Nation and On The Earth productions, radio host Thom Hartmann explains that the world will reach peak oil within the next year if it hasn’t already. As a nation, the United States reached peak oil in 1974, after which it became a net oil importer.Arctic Currents Warmest in 2000 Years
Posted on February 1, 2011 | 4 CommentsA North Atlantic current flowing into the Arctic Ocean is warmer than for at least 2,000 years in a sign that global warming is likely to bring ice-free seas around the North Pole in summers, a study showed.2010 Hottest Year on Record
Posted on August 23, 2010 | 3 CommentsOne only has to piece together the fires in Russia and extreme heat in Europe and the Eastern Seaboard of the US, flooding in New England and the southern midwest, and now, disastrously, Pakistan, to see the warming trend manifesting worldwide.
