Wisconsin Badgers Toward Cleaner Energy

CO2 is removed in the plant's two tall silvery columns (top).

Today, as part of the Society of Environmental Journalists annual meeting, I hopped a bus and toured three of Wisconsin’s leading renewable-energy projects. Heartened as I was to see innovation in action, I could also tell we’re still in Mile One […]

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War and Global Warming

My current reading is “Climate Change as a Security Risk,” a sort of threat dossier on a warming world. Amid mountains of dry data, the authors take a few imaginative leaps to picture how the world looks if we start preparing now, and what happens if we don’t. […]

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The Long Summer

I just finished reading “The Long Summer,” a book by archaeologist Brian Fagan about how climate change has affected the course of human history. With my home state of California heading into a serious summer drought, a long view of the weather seemed wise. […]

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