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Protect Our Planet, Protect Ourselves – 24 Hours of Reality
It’s a fact: Fossil fuels are driving a climate crisis and threatening our health. On Dec. 3 – 4, Climate Reality and former Vice President Al Gore will be joined by an all-star line-up of artists, thought leaders, and scientists … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged climate change, energy, environment, global warming, sustainability, The Climate Reality Project
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An Energy Revolution
A recent article at Nuclear News reminds us the world is on the cusp of an energy revolution. “The cost of renewables like solar and cell batteries for electric vehicles are making the carbon-based economy obsolete, with the turning point … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged climate change, energy, environment, politics, sustainability
What’s After Paris?
Last week, Al Gore reflected on the ten years since he founded The Climate Reality Project. Following is an excerpt from an email he sent to the Climate Reality Leaders he trained. Ten years ago, I trained the first group … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged climate change, energy, environment, sustainability, The Climate Reality Project
Electricity and Our Future
It would be great to just plug into a socket, use electricity and be done with it. There’s more to it than that. We take lighting after sundown for granted, as we do preserving food in the ice box and … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged climate change, energy, environment, sustainability, The Climate Reality Project
Going Solar in Iowa
(Editor’s Note: This is a revised and updated post about solar power). Climate Reality Leadership Corps founder and former vice president Al Gore gave his slide show, an updated version of the one used in the film An Inconvenient Truth, … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged energy, environment, sustainability, The Climate Reality Project
Interview with Ed Fallon
Blog for Iowa caught up with Ed Fallon in Iowa City at a March 11 fundraiser for his Iowa Pipeline Walk along the proposed route of the Dakota Access oil pipeline from the Bakken shale formation through Iowa to Illinois. … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged Bakken formation, Blog for Iowa, Dakota Access Pipeline, energy, environment, Iowa Legislature, sustainability
Train Wrecks and an Ag Summit
As punctuation to my article Why Bakken Oil is Dirty, last Thursday’s BNSF oil train derailment in a remote area near Galena, Ill. tells the story better than I could. It is the third Bakken oil train derailment in the … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Politics
Tagged Bakken formation, energy, environment, politics
