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A Climate for Change: A Good New Read
Two noted evangelicals have written a book on climate change from a science and faith perspective: Katharine Hayhoe and Andrew Farley’s A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions. Written in an accessible format, this book provides an… Read more >
This week’s “Last Chance” Appearances
I’ll be speaking about my new book, Last Chance, this Friday November 6 in Charlottesville, Virginia at the Garden Club of Virginia Conservation Forum. I’ll also be speaking on Saturday, November 7, at National Wildlife Federation’s affiliate, Texas Conservation Alliance,… Read more >
Keep Your Destination In View
What will you learn if you read Al Gore’s new book Our Choice? That if we decide we want to be more energy independent and create millions of jobs, the answers are available to us.There’s a connection between our climate,… Read more >
October 19 at Seattle Aquarium – Be There
I’m looking forward to talking with guests at the Seattle Aquarium about my new book Last Chance: Preserving Life on Earth on Monday October 19 at 6:45 pm. The Seattle Aquarium is working hard to rebuild a healthy Puget Sound… Read more >
Speaking Up for the Frog
In my new book Last Chance: Preserving Life on Earth, I write that large tracts of the vast Amazonian rainforest ecosystem may be on the brink of irreversible collapse if the drought and other global warming effects on the Amazon… Read more >
Last Chance: Preserving Life on Earth
I will be continuing to speak in December and in the coming year in the cities below on my recently published book Last Chance: Preserving Life on Earth. I believe that we have little time to act to protect the nature… Read more >
The Arctic Wildlife Refuge–Whose Land?
Caribou Rising: Defending the Porcupine Herd, Gwich-’in Culture, and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by Rick Bass Sierra Club Books 164 pp., $19.95 With gas prices climbing, oil executives hope that lawmakers will be persuaded to open the Arctic National… Read more >
Climate Friendly Events and Conferences on Campus and Beyond
Can campuses and other institutions hold climate friendly events and conferences? This week’s activities in Montreal, Canada, suggests we can. This week is the eleventh session of the Conference of Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate… Read more >
Green Campus Transport Good Economics and Community Relations
Will Toor and Spencer Havlick’s book, Transportation and Sustainable Campus Communities (2004), is a vital resource for anyone interested in how campuses can reduce congestion related to cars on campuses and in surrounding communities while saving money and preventing global… Read more >
Climate Literate Graduates– or Not?
A new report, Environmental Literacy in America (2005), written by Kevin Coyle, Vice President of Education for the National Wildlife Federation, concludes that Americans, even college graduates, are widely illiterate about environmental issues, especially more complex topics such as energy… Read more >
