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Is Our Climate Warming or Weirding?
WORD OF THE DAY: Global Weirding n. an increase in severe or unusual environmental activity often attributed to global warming. Note: Global weirding includes an increase in average temperatures, heat...
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Are You Ready For Transition?
December’s UN climate talks in Copenhagen failed to failed to produce a strong, binding agreement to cut carbon-dioxide emissions. Most Americans are painfully aware that burning fossil fuel...
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Slow Cooking Up a Solution
The more I learn about building movements, the more I appreciate my Crock Pot. My handy slow cooker has taught me much about fixing good food for my family along with the fine art of patience and...
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Book Review: The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight
A friend recommended The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight to me recently. Its one of those books filled with the bad news that makes many look away: we are running out of cheap fossil fuel, clean water...
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Resilience
re·sil·ience Pronunciation: \ri-ˈzil-yən(t)s\ Function: noun 1 : the capability of a strained body to recover its size and shape after deformation caused especially by compressive stress 2 : an...
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“Have the Best Earth Day Ever!”
What is so friggin’ happy about it? OK, I hate to sound like Debbie Downer here, especially after yesterday’s blog post about Gratitude, but we’ve got to have a serious talk about Earth Day. I’m sick...
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Love Your Mother
Being a mother can be a thankless job. Speaking from personal experience, it can be really really annoying when your kids don’t heed your wise words. Instead, they do stupid things with out planning...
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Wacky Weather as a Wakeup Call
NASA reported back in 2007 that global warming would bring more violent storms and tornadoes. Last night parts of Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island experienced what sure as heck seemed to be a...
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31 Healthy Hints for the Holidaze: Healing the Earth
Home Sweet Home After watching last night’s eclipse, I’m reminded that we are all in this together. We’ve got one planet to live on, planetary health and personal health are deeply connected. I found...
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Why We Deny
I’ve been busy working on a big writing project around climate change for the past few months. Today while doing research, I stumbled upon a very intriguing talk given by a green venture capitalist....
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Non Caloric Nourishment and Earth Activism
I do not believe that the path to good health and happiness is solely about the right combination of fruits and vegetables. My model of good health includes many forms of non caloric nourishment....
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Turning Up the Heat for 2015
As a long time fractivist, I’ve been doing a little happy dance since Governor Cuomo banned fracking in NY state last week. Natural gas is a bridge to nowhere I was proud and frankly amazed that our...
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Bankrupt Words: Natural Gas
“He who controls the language controls the masses.” – Saul Alinsky in Rules for Radicals LIGHT My mom switched to “light” cigarettes after the mandatory warnings appeared on her boxes of smokes in...
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Dear Mrs. Clinton
Dear Mrs. C, Over the years you’ve lived in Chappaqua, we haven’t had a chance to speak. I’ve chatted numerous times with your husband, Bill about school food and the farm bill. My focus on public...
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