Al Gore is waking up America to the extreme dangers of global warming with his film and new book–Inconvenient Truth. After carrying a slide projector to over a thousand … Read more
Larry Schweiger’s Archive
Ozone Layer in Recovery
Many wonder if it is possible to get the whole world to work together to solve our shared climate crisis and to create a new energy pathway wide enough for … Read more
A Moral Responsibility to Confront Global Warming
Overwhelmingly, America’s forty-million sportsmen and women believe we all have a moral responsibility to confront global warming to protect our children’s future… This important finding is a part of our … 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 … Read more
The Real Pain at the Pump
Have you ever wondered who gets your gas money as prices spike and we shell out more and more at the gas pump? Well, I have a partial answer today. … Read more
Two Worlds
On a recent flight to California, I was seated next to a 10-year-old heavy-set boy who was traveling alone…alone that is with his hand-held Game Boy. From the east coast … Read more
The Price of a Vote
Senate Republicans want to give you a hundred dollars before you go to the polls and vote on their performance this November. This is a frightening attempt to buy your … Read more
Rush Limbaugh and Global Warming
I see where conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh signed a plea agreement for misleading several doctors who gave him pain killers. I wonder what kind of plea agreement Limbaugh will … Read more
George Will and Global Warming
Unknowingly, George Will has written perhaps the best rebuttal so far to his own distorted view of global warming science. In his April 2 column (“Let Cooler Heads Prevail”) (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/31/AR2006033101707.html … Read more
Environmental Education Works
I had an Earth Day surprise while attending the Montana Wildlife Federation’s annual meeting in Helena. A man with a baby daughter approached me and asked if I remembered him. … Read more