Alexander Stubb - Prime Minister of Finland 2025 Speech at the UN

Summer 2023 - Climate Change Status with Michael Mann

Climate Change Conspiracy - DEBUNKED

Food Cam!

This series called "Climate Lab" is like an updated version of the Story of Stuff.

The United States - #1 TRASH Producer in the World!

Lauren Singer's Website is called "Trash is for Tossers" - Love that name!

Stewart Brand on De-Extinction for the Woolly Mammoth

Sustainability, Hurricane Irma, Race, and Book Club

Ah Tom Paine's Ghost, I've been neglecting you to broadcast my thoughts more directly through Facebook and twitter. At least I syndicate the later here on the sidebar.
As we are now in the late third trimester of the Trump administration I want to get back to my roots on the web, reconnect with my blogging, and re-enter with some broader dialogues on Climate-Change and how the manifestations like Hurricane Irma bring the land ethic preached by Wendell Berry, Edward Abbey, and Aldo Leopold smashing (both metaphorically and physically) into the people-centered ethic preached by Dr. Martin Luther King and the long list of philosophers who hold human rights, and social justice at the top of the reformers to-do list. This ethical crossroads is grossly apparent when regions of the United States affected most dramatically by ensuring climate chaos are those regions who simultaneously experience the legacy of racial injustice.

So why talk about sustainability in a moment of immediacy, a moment when thumbing your nose at bottled water seems blithely out of touch with the immediate needs of flood victims?  Well, a deep ecological consciousness-raising followed by a massive political movement is the only way I can see to grab hold of the wheel and turn this ship around.  So where to start? If you like podcasts I have a recommendation - Think Sustainability -  this Austrailian podcast is a non-pretentious incredibly entertaining show with very doable advice. Last year while on a cross-country road-trip my wife and I listened to a bunch of episodes. One of our favorites was this one guiding listeners on home-compost best practices.

Remembering how impactful listening to this podcast was on me is inspiring and makes want to kick off my own podcast.   For the last year, I have been organizing a Men's Book Club.  I am considering spinning off some of our conversations into a monthly podcast.  Stay tuned for the premiere of "Chlorathropolis" podcast!

Comment here in if you'd like to be a guest and get on our first-year schedule.

Fighting the Good Fight

I recall my father undergoing a major change in attitude about climate change 10 years ago after he attended a screening of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth at the Chautauqua Institution. The data combined with Al Gore's persuasive argument led my Dad to give up his vision of signing natural gas leases on his 114-acre plot in Cattaraugus County and instead sign a lease with a wind-turbine development company. 4 years after my dad has passed and our family is sill benefiting from this legacy. And now, Al Gore has an update for us.

Bernie Sanders Explains How Terrorism is Fueled by Climate Change

Tim DeChristopher on the Late Show with David Letterman

I woke up this morning to read an epic Facebook Note by Arnold Schwarzenegger! This sent me careening around the internet looking up the recent history of climate change activism until I rediscovered Tim DeChristopher. Of course this is a little old but I thought I would share it for the first time on Tom Paine's Ghost today in the wake of the Paris Climate Change summit. I feel obligated to new TPG readers to catch you up on the story of Tim DeChristopher who in a very real way helped save a precious resource in the United States from environmental destruction. For anyone who has ever traveled to Moab, UT and seen the otherworldly beauty that abounds there, you may want to know this story...

Terrorism Fueled by Climate Change? Bill Nye Weighs In

Though I think Nye is on to something here I criticize his assertion the attackers in Paris were Syrian.  Though it looks like some of the attackers spent time in Syria, the alleged masterminds behind the attack were born in Brussels, Belgium. The New York Times has an informative page explaining the known web of terrorists who carried out the Paris attacks.  I've only started to research their origins but it looks like most were radicalized in Belgium.  Anyone have any more info on the connection between Syria and the Paris attacks?

President Obama and Bill Nye Talk Science and Politics

Dad, Kate, and I discuss CO2, the nature of greed, and Irish music.

EuroTrash: How Sweden Turns Gunk to Gold

Importing garbage for energy is good business for Sweden from Sweden on Vimeo.

Nye and Blackburn on Climate Policy

Harrison Ford: still a bad ass.

At age 71 Harrison Ford is still shooting first. Grist reports Ford has been threatened with deportation from Indonesia because of his stern questioning of the forestry minister there about illegal logging activity and climate change. 

Watching Earth Melt

All I want for Christmas is to stop FRACKING in New York State

Reflectining on the Election and Climate Change

A Big Problem.