Of all the consequences of human-caused global warming, sea level rise has always held special alarm for me in its inexorability, its extension into the future, and the enormous disruption it threatens to centres of high population and essential infrastructure. Scientist Scott Mandia and writer Hunt Janin have teamed to ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in November 2012, about Children and Families, Climate Change, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans
Greenwash: Big Brands and Carbon Scams by Guy Pearse was an eye-opener for a reader like me who pays practically no attention to brand advertising. I didn’t realise how many major brands are striving to present green credentials to their consuners. The book covers a multitude of them across ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in October 2012, about Climate Change, Consumerism, Emissions, Industry & Business, Retail
Tony Eggleton’s A Short Introduction to Climate Change is an excellent account of climate science for the general reader. The author is a retired geology professor from the Australian National University. Two widely read climate change deniers, Ian Plimer and Bob Carter, are also retired Australian geology professors, but ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in October 2012, about Agriculture & Food, Children and Families, Climate Change, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Environmental Disasters, Sustainability, Water, Weather (1 comment)
We know that sea level rise is an inevitable consequence of the global warming that our continued burning of fossil fuels is causing. What we don’t know is how much to expect and how soon to expect it. Journalist Daniel Grossman in his Kindle Single Deep Water: As Polar ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in August 2012, about Climate Change, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Environmental Disasters, Farming, Polar Sea Ice, Sustainability, Weather (1 comment)
Geoff Simmons and Gareth Morgan, with help from John McCrystal, have produced a book which one hopes will be read by many New Zealanders. Ice, Mice and Men: The Issues Facing our Far South not only carries illuminating scientific information about the islands and seas to our south and the ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in August 2012, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Climate Change, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Environment & Wildlife, Polar Sea Ice, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans (1 comment)
I’m no entrepreneur, but I enjoyed reading energy scientist Jonathan Koomey’s book Cold Cash, Cool Climate: Science-Based Advice for Ecological Entrepreneurs. It’s comforting to be reminded that not everything in the mitigation of climate change depends on governments, that there is a lively creativity in the entrepreneurial ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in August 2012, about Clean Tech, Climate Change, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Innovation
I decided to take a look at Senator Inhofe’s newly published book The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future, thinking I might get a better understanding of what impels a politician like him into aggressive denial of climate science and opposition to any moves to ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in March 2012, about Children and Families, Climate Change, Climate Scepticism, Environmental Disasters, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Politics & Government (2 comments)
Is there movement already under way in the world of industry which will outstrip the painfully slow progress of the political world in facing up to the challenge of climate change? Amory Lovins certainly thinks so and his recent book, Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in March 2012, about Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Economics, Energy Saving, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior (1 comment)
It was clearly never Michael Mann’s wish to be embroiled in the public controversy that has been manufactured by the denial industry around his and his co-authors’ work. He’s a scientist first and foremost, the nine-year-old who wanted to know what it meant to go faster than the ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in February 2012, about Climate Change, Climate Scepticism, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government
Kristin Shrader-Frechette of the University of Notre Dame is rigorous in the presentation of her argument in What Will Work: Fighting Climate Change with Renewable Energy, Not Nuclear Power. In recent times a number of leading environmentalists have concluded nuclear power has to be employed to enable the transition away ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in January 2012, about Children and Families, Economics, Emissions, Energy Saving, Politics & Government, Solar, Wind Energy
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Sociedades Del Futuro aims to work with leading social change agencies to train 180 young Mexican change makers to facilitate ... more »
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