SA Fall 2015

Josh Fox, director of the Gasland movies, and Zephyr Teachout, Fordham University professor, anti-corruption expert and 2014 candidate for governor, will speak on the solutions to climate change, the most urgent environmental problem of our time, on Sunday, November 8, at 3 p.m.

 

I am an avid cyclist, and during a recent ride, I passed a man walking around his yard carrying a container of RoundUp in one hand—the large container filled with this herbicide—and in the other hand the wand that applies the herbicide to the identified undesirables growing in his nearly perfectly manicured lawn.

 

This scene forced me to contemplate yet again why there is such a strong desire to dominate and control nature to achieve a perfect aesthetic ideal, while also using products that have severe consequences for our

The Sierra Club has launched its #ActInParis campaign in the lead up to this year’s annual international climate negotiations in Paris.

 

In 1977, the leaders of ExxonMobil were told that burning oil would heat up the planet disastrously. Their top scientific minds agreed that this greenhouse effect was caused by man-made carbon dioxide, and there was a short window of 5 or 10 years in which to make hard decisions about changes in energy strategy.