climate change Archive
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Risking arrest: a mother’s path
Posted on April 19, 2011 | 3 CommentsA moving personal account, cross-posted from It’s Getting Hot In Here. Added clarifications are in brackets. The following is a post written by Vanessa Rule, a community leader, climate activist,... -
I will be silent no more, forever
Posted on April 18, 2011 | 20 CommentsBy Sam Rubin, who was among 9 arrested for disrupting Congress by singing their climate justice demands from the gallery This Friday, April 15, I went to Congress to be... -
The Climate Trial in SLC
Posted on November 8, 2010 | 1 CommentClimate Trial, 5th of November, 2010. Across the street from the Federal Courthouse in Salt Lake City, Utah. Climate Trial, Salt Lake City, Utah from Cliff Lyon Script: “All rise.... -
DeChristopher to Utah Governor: A declaration of war against the living will be met in kind
Posted on October 3, 2010 | 2 CommentsOn September 14, 2010, Tim DeChristopher addressed the Governors Energy Task Force in Salt Lake City. The public meeting was held to gather input as the state develops its 10-year... -
Scott Adams’ green house of denial
Posted on August 23, 2010 | 1 CommentScott Adams, creator of “Dilbert”, recently wrote a piece in the Wall Street Journal entitled: How I (Almost) Saved the Earth. As I type, it is making the rounds on social networks, emails, and probably being talked about around the water coolers that Adams portrays in his iconic comic strip. Why is the article so popular? Does it speak some truth that needed a voice? Does it introduce a concept that furthers the discussion on environmentalism? No. It strikes a chord because it tells people what they want to hear. -
ACT: Tell the State Dept. to Stop the Tar Sands Pipeline
Posted on July 1, 2010 | 2 CommentsTomorrow, July 2nd, is the deadline for public comments on the Keystone XL pipeline that could bring 900,000 barrels of tar sands to American refineries each day. Tar sands are the dirtiest fuel we use, creating 3 times the greenhouse gases as conventional oil, contaminating entire rivers and watersheds from leaking toxic tailings lakes and devastating an area of Canada the size of Florida. -
Friday Uprising: Hack the Planet
Posted on June 28, 2010 | No CommentsGeo-engineering is now being seriously considered to alleviate the worst conditions of climate change. Eli Kintish's new book, Hack the Planet, explores how once outlandish ideas are now being taken seriously by those hoping to avert climate chaos. -
Tar Sands Mining: Coming NOW to the United States
Posted on March 21, 2010 | No CommentsTar sands projects are among the most environmentally destructive in the world: strip mining and pulverizing rock, heating it to 700 degrees, gobbling up water, consuming far more energy than is created, manufacturing four times as much carbon emissions as conventional oil, and spewing poison into the earth, water, and sky -- and a new tar sands project, the first of its kind in the USA, is about to break ground in Utah... unless you speak up. -
April 3rd: Fossil Fools Day Action at Kennecott
Posted on March 18, 2010 | 3 CommentsAs part of the national Fossil Fools Day of Action, Peaceful Uprising will be coordinating a legal and peaceful event to target Kennecott Copper's coal-fired power plant--one of the larger point sources of air and climate pollution in the Salt Lake Valley. All who care about the air quality on the Wasatch Front are invited to come and show that we the people are willing to make strong demands to preserve our health from the foolish burning of fossil fuels. -
Friday Uprising: Globalize Liberation
Posted on February 24, 2010 | No CommentsActivist, author and puppeteer David Solnit takes it to the streets, country to country, working for people and the planet. David discusses the history of the so-called "anti-globalization movement" and the hope of a Climate Justice Revolution.
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