It’s been a long time since I wrote about sustainability, but it is one issue that will challenge Generation Y like no other generation yet. I’ve shied away from it because I got tired of reporting on news that always seemed to be negative. I got tired of feeling like a doomsayer, which—unfortunately—is what a lot of environmentalists come off [...]

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 our lexicon, and a [...]

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 the world and how it [...]

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 either way, 2) we need [...]

Looking back at 2006, there were a lot of major events and people that changed the path of history. Rather than a traditional top ten list there is a list of five actual events that made an economic, social, or environmental change, and since everyone loves movies, there is also a list of five thinking-man’s films that are worth your [...]

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 when there are unusually [...]

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 I examine rising sea [...]

National Geographic Traveler magazine recently featured a full exposé on global warming, climate change, and how it will affect travel and tourism. This was a great series, but unfortunately it is not available online. So I will post a series of articles that covers the evidence they’ve gathered, plus some. Today, I present the emerging signs of climate change as [...]