George Harvey Most people in this country drive cars, and most of those cars have internal combustion engines that burn fossil fuels. Many people who care about climate change and the environment still burn gasoline for transportation. The reason is … Continue reading →
Solar Hot Water in the Age of Solar Electricity: Heat Pump Water Heater – Part 2 Russ Lanoie Other than capturing the sun through windows for passive solar heating, for many years the most effective way to utilize the free … Continue reading →
Michael J. Daley Even with a heroic effort to turn every bit of cropland, pasture, hay field, and barren ground into forest, a unique study of flooding in the Lake Champlain watershed by University of Vermont (UVM) scientists generated sobering … Continue reading →
Alan Betts A new IPCC report on February 28 on the climate crisis is very bleak. It recognizes climate breakdown is accelerating rapidly, many of the impacts will be more severe than predicted and there is only a narrow chance … Continue reading →
Pandora’s Toolbox, The Hopes and Hazards of Climate Intervention by Wake Smith, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK 2022. 343 pages plus appendices, notes and index. Book Review by Janis Petzel, MD There is a lot to chew on in Pandora’s … Continue reading →
John Bos TRASH Noun: “discarded matter; refuse.” Synonyms: waste · waste material · refuse · litter · garbage · debris · junk · dross · detritus · sweepings · dregs · remains · rubbish. The biggest environmental cover-up operation in … Continue reading →
Colleen Ward I grew up in beautiful Colorado and experienced multiple impacts of climate change firsthand. They have shaped my passion to communicate and drive climate actions that we can all take. I was at my childhood home when our … Continue reading →
Alicia Brisson, Krista Fillion, and Lyndsey Parrott On Dec. 1, the Vermont Climate Council released and adopted the state’s first Climate Action Plan. This provides strategies to reduce emissions within Vermont to meet the goals of the 2020 Global Warming … Continue reading →
John Pincince For some years, my wife, Lucy, and I used a small gasoline generator to run a well pump for irrigation. This was not in keeping with our desire to reduce our consumption of fossil fuels. So, we looked … Continue reading →
Katharine Gage The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released the second part of its Sixth Assessment Report on climate change, focusing on impacts, mitigation, and adaptation, again drawing attention to the deteriorating future of the climate and the … Continue reading →