Geopolitics don’t stop because climate change and other environmental pressures confront the global society. Cleo Paskal in her book Global Warring: How Environmental, Economic and Political Crises Will Redraw the World Map offers little hope of human societies setting aside their differences to confront the common threat. Not that ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in April, about Children and Families, Climate Change, Consumerism, Design, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Education, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Philosophy & Religion, Politics & Government, Population, Poverty & Development
Novelist Ian McEwan is fully aware of the dangers of climate change and concerned that renewable energy options be deployed with all possible urgency. His memorable article in the Guardian in November 2008 makes that very clear. In 2005 he went with a group of artists and scientists to the ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in March, about Art & Culture, Children and Families, Climate Change, Education, Solar
Eighteen months ago Clive Hamilton finally admitted to himself that we’re not going to act with the urgency needed to meet the action required by the science. Hence his new book Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change. It is now too late to ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in March, about Children and Families, Climate Change, Consumerism, Education, Environmental Disasters, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Media, Politics & Government
Is it worth spending a whole book dissecting the writing of Bjørn Lomborg, the “skeptical environmentalist”? Certainly not in terms of the quality of Lomborg’s argument, which simply doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. But Lomborg’s writing has been permitted to exercise a widespread and harmful influence ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in March, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Climate Change, Education, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Events, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Media
The name of Bill Bryson attracted me and I obtained through the library a copy of his new book Seeing Further: The Story of Science & the Royal Society, only to find that he is the editor, not the author. But he has done a splendid job as editor, collecting contributions ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in March, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Art & Culture, Children and Families, Clean Technologies, Education, Events, Industry & Business, Media
In late 2007 I kidded myself that I was present at a gathering of Nobel Laureates as I spent some hours watching a website video record of their proceedings. They had assembled with a variety of other distinguished experts for a three-day symposium on global sustainability. I can remember being ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in March, about Climate Change, Design, Education, Events, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government
We can’t successfully tackle climate change without changes to the corporate regime which has been in place in America since the Reagan presidency. That’s the underlying message of Charles Derber in his latest book Greed to Green: Solving Climate Change and Remaking the Economy. It’s a message ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in February, about Children and Families, Climate Change, Consumerism, Economics, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government
“A mad woman,” said Kenyan President Arap Moi in 1992, “a threat to the order and security of the country.” He spoke of Wangari Maathai . A few years before he had suggested in a public speech that she learn to be a proper woman in the African tradition and respect ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in February, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Children and Families, Climate Change, Deforestation, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Education, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Media, Politics & Government, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Water, Weather
“All indications are that we should be alarmed about the future of sea level rise and should be doing something about it now.” Orrin Pilkey and Rob Young , eminent coastal scientists, wrote their book The Rising Sea to provide substance for that alarm and to offer suggestions as to how ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in February, about Children and Families, Climate Change, Education, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Water, Weather
When James Lovelock, Edward O. Wilson and Ian McEwan jostle to praise a book I assume it will be worth attention. Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto doesn’t disappoint. The title echoes the Whole Earth Catalogue which he founded over forty years ago as an ambitious ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in February, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Children and Families, Climate Change, Design, Economics, Education, Environmental Disasters, Events, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government, Water, Weather
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