4 articles Climate Change

After checking in with myself on the five best ways to reduce my personal carbon footprint, I figured the next step was to reach out into the community — maybe to spread the word, or maybe to see what other people were thinking or doing to help stoke the green, clean, renewable engine. Either way,…

A couple of weeks ago, I posted a climate credo. Since then, the environment has been in the news cycle more often than usual: there was an emergency debate on global warming in the House of Commons, and just this week, the Prime Minister announced he was moving ahead with a nationwide (sort of) carbon…

Take a moment to imagine that you are living in the time of your great-grandparents. Imagine yourself surrounded by horse-drawn carriages, oil lamps, and steam engines. You know that exciting changes are on the horizon—maybe you’ve already glimpsed a few, like the electric light bulb or the automobile—but it’s impossible to guess how the next…

I have a short list of values, and every few years I write them out and re-evaluate them. For as long as I can remember, “the environment” has been on my list, but it has never risen to the top. I don’t think I’m alone in this. A few years ago, I participated in a…