Sustainability

1,000 year flood in Louisiana

This week, central and southwestern Louisiana have been slammed by unprecedented floods. Over the weekend, I watched heavy rains pour down on my community and my own home sink into rising waters. Across the region, tens of thousands of people have been evacuated, thousands of homes damaged, and at at least eleven people killed. This fills my heart with both a deep sadness and deep anger — at the fossil fuel companies driving this ongoing crisis, and at an Administration that continues to sell them the right to do so.

August 18, 2016
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
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Is the Oil Industry Dying?

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Talking about “peak oil” can feel very last decade. In fact, the question is still current. Petroleum markets are so glutted and prices are so low that most industry commenters think any worry about future oil supplies is pointless.

August 10, 2016
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Category: Environment

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Guilt by association not enough to discredit new study showing links between asthma and fracking

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Earlier this week, findings of an important new study were published in JAMA Internal Medicine showing that risk of asthma attacks was more likely for people in Pennsylvania who lived

July 21, 2016
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Confronting Collapse: The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World

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The world is running short of energy-especially cheap, easy-to-find oil. Shortages, along with resulting price increases, threaten industrialized civilization, the global economy, and our entire way of life.

May 3, 2016
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Environment

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