10 Controversial Climate Change Fixes to Spark Discussion—From Wired.com

Welcome to Thrilling Heroics: a personal and career development site for college students and young professionals! If you enjoy the site, I encourage you to leave your comments and consider subscribing to future articles. Optimize your Life, Rock your Career, and Make the World your Playground!It’s been a long time since I wrote about sustainability, [...]

Slow Cooker Earth Part V: The Unforseen Effect on Public Policy

This is the final installment in the Slow Cooker Earth series. We’ve looked at what global warming means in terms of extreme weather and rising sea levels, and its effect on animals and the land. Today we look at its effect on human society.
“Global warming” and “climate change” are obviously becoming the new buzzwords in [...]

Slow Cooker Earth Part IV: How Global Warming is Changing the Face of Our Icons

Today I finally return to an old series about the impact of global warming on our earth. If you’re new, I invite you to catch up on Parts 1, 2, and 3. This “Slow Cooker Earth” series is meant to give you some hard evidence of the harmful trends occurring in ecosystems and climate around [...]

Let’s Prevent Life in a Post-Apocalyptic World

A recent article from Worldchanging makes the simple (and what should be obvious) point that what they call “climate foresight” is becoming a necessary skill to pick up. I like this article because it sums up the point that 1) the source of global warming is no longer worth arguing about because it is happening [...]

Slow Cooker Earth Part III: What You Should Know About Species Extinction

This is the third post in a series that I was inspired to write by what I learned from a recent National Geographic Traveler feature. In today’s post, I give some concrete examples of animal species that are suffering due to global warming.
Many people tend to think that “global warming = everything getting hotter,” so [...]

Slow Cooker Earth Part II: The Threat Posed By Rising Sea Levels

This is the second in a series where I examine the effects of global warming on our world—effects which are already visible, and threats that loom on the horizon unless we change the way we live our lives. To read Part I, click here: Slow Cooker Earth Part I: How Weather Patterns Are Changing Worldwide.
Today [...]