Food pantries like this one in Chicago could see a spike in visits as tens of thousands of Cook County residents are at risk of losing food stamps. Alyssa Schukar for the Greater Chicago Food Depository, Time.com The 20 year wars in Iraq and Afghanistan cost us $21 trillion.
Bill Gates would tell you we are in danger of living an impoverished life. The idea that we would have to give up our fossil fuel funding credit cards, it’s just a bridge too far. Isn’t it? It turns out that if you want to get your cash rewards, and stop…
Book Review “Brown Church”Robert Chao Romero, Inter Varsity Press, 20202023-03-03 – Reviewer, Scott StewardIn human years, I’ve interacted and thought a long time about what it is to be Christian, and what Christianity represents in people’s lives. Brown Church includes an expansive review of the origins of what I think…
How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World. Russell Gold, Senior Energy Reporter, The Wall Street Journal. 2014, 311 pages The Boom covers the history that led up to the powerful resurgence of the fossil fuel industry that made the three decades, previous to 2009, of peak…
Review of: “Is Sucking Carbon Out of the Air the Soution to Our Climate Crises, Or just another Big Oil boondoggle?” Mother Jones November December, by Clive Thompson, illustrations by Keith Negley It’s not arbitrary that the benign phrase “catch and release” has been found on the lips of…
Review of the Yolo County Sustainability (Draft) Plan – by Scott Steward The draft Yolo County Sustainability plan was just distributed. Is the draft Yolo County Sustainability Plan perfect, no one would make that claim, but I have gratitude for at least having a 15 page county level Sustainability Plan. It’s…
Cities acrosss the country pay 10’s of millions of dollars to fix its streets bridges, and bike paths, infrastructure which will continue to be necessary to our city long into the future. In California, banks and financial institutions that move money for state infrastructure investments collect $7.7 billion dollars a year for servicing…
We start with introductions – how people are feeling as they arrive in the room. The formal meeting starts with a land acknowledgement recognizing the indigenous caretakers that came millennia before and who are with us today. Then the assigned facilitator (rotated each month) takes us through the agenda. Deconstructing racism…
Europe is betting… No. Europe is planning on making hydrogen fuel a central part of their renewable energy infrastructure. And here in the States? Domestic companies, who have withstood the outlandish US investment shortfall in hydrogen fuel cell technology, no longer care. Recent momentum experienced by Plug Powered Inc., Fuelcell Energy, Ballard Power…
As the profound Anand Giridharadas has asked from us all, “not to just to play by the rules, but make the rules.” Make policy that works for people and the planet. That is what has been done in Yolo County California (west of Sacramento). In the build up to the 2020 victory, the…