Category Archives: Climate Change

Green Products

Posted on July 5, 2009 by Yaacov

Rex Weyler has an excellent article discussing green products and why we need to be better informed about their ecological effects. He also explains the concepts of overshoot and how our technophilia is preventing us from adequately addressing overshoot.

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“Inaction is Inexcusable”

Posted on July 1, 2009 by Yaacov

Leading climate scientists have published a research overview in plain English with the key points about current knowledge of climate change.

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Climate Cover-up

Posted on April 25, 2009 by Yaacov

The New York Times is reporting that a group representing industries that profited from fossil fuels continued to claim that climate change was not being caused by greenhouse gases, even as their own experts were telling them otherwise.

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Carbon Offsets

Posted on April 22, 2009 by Yaacov

The New Internationalist has a short and sweet article explaining what you should know about carbon offsets.

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Carbon Shift

Posted on April 20, 2009 by Yaacov

The Toronto Star has an article about Thomas Homer-Dixon, a professor at UW who studies societal stresses like climate change and peak oil. Homer-Dixon has just written Carbon Shift, a follow-up book to the terrific The Upside of Down. I’m … Continue reading →

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