When I turned 16 back in the late 60’s everyone went to get their driver’s license immediately. We didn’t even have to have taken and passed Driver’s Education then. Just show up and take the test and hope you passed, as I did. It was status then and a right of passage. As the following article delineates, once…
The Board and Associates Sierra Club Board Meeting: May 17, 2014 San Francisco At this meeting we tackled quite a few items of a consequential nature that will have an enormous impact on the structure of our Club and our ability and capability to function effectively and efficiently and have an impact on the future of our planet on which…
According to the following article we still have time to mitigate the worst consequences of melting Antarctica Glaciers. If we eliminate our emissions of CO2 rapidly we can prevent the worst consequences of sea level rise. If the worst case scenarios are avoided then we can allow future generations the time needed to adopt to significantly higher sea levels…
Too often I hear skeptics tell me that it doesn’t matter what we do about eliminating our carbon emissions here in the US because China is opening a new coal plant every week. While that was true at one point, it is not the case anymore. And not only have China’s coal plant openings slowed, but the Chinese…
As we contemplate how we reduce our use of fossil fuels and convert to creating electricity from entirely green sources over the next couple of decades, one of the key factors is not to use as much energy. We have the technology to do that today and as time rolls on, it will only get better and less expensive. About…
Here’s some Sierra Club news that might be of interest to you this morning. Sierra Club launches ads against Duke Energy Manuel Quiñones, E&E reporter Published: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 The Sierra Club will begin airing two television ads today criticizing Duke Energy Corp. for its response to a large spill in February at the utility’s coal ash pond on…
Let me start out your week with a reminder of the beauty and amazingness of our world. While there’s obvious logic as to why we do not want to destroy the planet that sustains us, we should never discount the emotional and spiritual aspect of the motivation to “Explore, Enjoy, and Protect the Planet” (as the motto of…
While this is a relatively longer article than most I send out, it is an excellent piece on where we are right now in the US on Climate Change. I know that there are folks that don’t even believe that the climate is changing and temperatures are getting warmer and refute the basic premise of this article (some…
Absaroka Wilderness, Montana August 1 -10, 1989 In 1988 about a million acres of Yellowstone National Park (about one third of the Park) was burned in a series of huge forrest fires. The next year, my friend Jeff and I decided to hike in the area to see what the area now looked like. We hiked 75 miles from east…
Vista Ridge – The sun warms my back. A gentile mountain breeze blows from behind me and I feel it caress the back of my ears and through the hair on the underside of my legs. I hear it sway the tree tops. An occasional bug buzzes by. The purple lupine and other white wild flowers blanket the meadows above…