Just as a new UN report comes out that says the world is on the brink of a climate catastrophe, a small town in Canada bears witness to the consequences first-hand.

A very good new article was published recently that underscores what we have been warning about for years. It is well worth the read.

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All life is based on energy.  For all but the last one hundred and fifty years, every creature on Earth depended almost exclusively on renewable energy for its needs and wants.  But since the mid-nineteenth century...

We take our climate book recommendations very seriously. Currently, only two books must be read by everyone seriously concerned about the climate, environment, or sustainability. 

Our current institutional coping mechanisms will be inadequate to deal with the coming climate chaos. New ways of living together will inevitably emerge in unpredictable and unexpected forms on an ad hoc basis. Do you know those ways?

Today California is getting speared from two directions: flood water is surging over a landscape that has been parched by a continuing drought.