North Carolina tries to vote away reality
This post is a little dated now, but still worth highlighting in my opinion. In a surprising turn of recent events, the North Carolina legislature voted July 3rd that history is not really...
political ecology
Environmental Security and Global Warming
Back in 2007 the Carnegie Council held a symposium on environmental security, in which a number of academics working or thinking about this question had submitted related papers, with the featured piece...
Cement – The Hidden Killer
As Madeleine Rubenstein noted in a recent post at the Earth Institute, one of the hidden killers of the industrial world, as well as a major point-source of CO2 pollution, is concrete...
Welcome to the Anthropocene: Disaster Time
As I’ve discussed in an earlier post, the Anthropocene is a concept coined a little over a decade ago by scientists to describe the massive scale of changes happening to the Earth’s biosphere...
It’s a Mad, Mad World!
“I do not believe that this legislation changes the scientific standards that are taught in our schools or the curriculum that is used by our teachers.” –TN Governor Bill Haslam on the...
BP tries to shirk responsibility in Gulf oil spill case
I’d have to agree with a recent headline at MarketWatch: Sweet Deal for BP. Too sweet in fact. That BP is getting off the hook with only about $8 billion in fines...
