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Crew Members on Spaceship Earth Vote – Are You Crew?

David Houle - Futurist 06.04.2024

 

Regular readers of this weekly Crew Commentary know that we at This Spaceship Earth consider “save the planet” as a pointless phrase. The planet will be fine. It has been around for three billion years and will continue until the Sun blows up several billion years from now. Instead, we believe the phrase we should […]

 

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The Most Potent Climate Action You Can Take – VOTE!

Bob Leonard - Climate Risk Manager 05.21.2024

 

I’m not telling you to just show up at the polls and cast your ballot. Crew members do their homework. There are two sides to this coin. Not only do you need to learn about your politicians’ stances on climate issues, but crew members must also understand the issues. They are climate literate. They know […]

 

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Addressing Our Climate Crisis at the Grass Roots

05.07.2024

 

Editor’s Note: Jon Biemer gives us a real life example of what can happen at the local level when climate activists, municipal administrators and just plain folks cooperate and collaborate to tackle our climate crisis.   Pat Wartinger is a retired teacher and grandmother and a whirlwind of sustainability. The point here is not so […]

 

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The Horror of COP28

Bob Leonard - Climate Risk Manager | David Houle - Futurist 12.19.2023

 

Last Commentary we wrote about the hypocrisy and failure of the COP28 conference in Dubai, which ended last week. This column is about the absolute horror of this failure from a historical perspective and the failure of all 28 annual COPs.   28 annual conferences focused on global warming and the CO2 emissions that have […]

 

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Voting for the Environment

Bob Leonard - Climate Risk Manager 11.14.2023

 

Human-driven global warming has long been a divisive issue in the U.S., thanks in part to decades of polarizing messaging from industry, political figures and others. As the world experiences extreme heat and other climate change-driven events with increasing frequency, people’s views on what’s happening still vary widely, but they are changing.   The political […]

 

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