Facing Record Droughts, Gov. Rick Perry Proclaims Official Day of Prayer for...
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore via Flickr / CC BY-SA Things are getting bad in Texas — wildfires have swept across over 1 million acres, and the worst drought in decades is continuing unabated. So you...
View ArticleNo End In Sight For Texas Drought, Says National Weather Service
photo: Paul Lowry / CC BY Some starkly blunt language coming from the National Weather Service on when the extreme drought conditions gripping much of Texas may let up: … Read the full story on...
View ArticleHelp Build A Sustainable Off-Grid Friggebod With Floda31
It must be nice to be former Swedish housing minister Birgit Friggebo ; She is now immortalized for her removing of the requirement for building approval for structures under 150 square feet, known...
View ArticleRick Perry: Global Warming is a Hoax Concoted by Data-Manipulating Scientists
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore via Flickr/CC BY Texas Governor Rick Perry is indeed, as many news outlet have noted, “coming out swinging” in the presidential primaries. He’s already called for a...
View ArticleWhy Rick Perry Needs to Be Called Out on His Climate Denying
How can Texas governor and presidential candidate Rick Perry talk so irresponsibly about global warming–and get away with it? See original here: Why Rick Perry Needs to Be Called Out on His Climate...
View ArticleWorld’s First Green Pilgrimage Network Launches At End of October
photo: Hideyuki Kamon / CC BY SA An interesting step towards eco-friendly spiritual travel: The Alliance of Regions and Conservation , working with WWF, is about to launch the Green Pilgrimage Network...
View ArticleCrafting Sustainable Rum is Largely a Matter of Catch and Release
After a few Mojitos, it’s easy to forget that making rum is an industrial process. Photo credit: Distillery Serrallés, USA In the first part of this series on rum production , we took a look at the...
View ArticleRick Perry’s Attack Ad: Obama & Romney are ‘Carbon Copies’ (Video)
There’s no love lost between Rick Perry and Mitt Romney, the two supposed frontrunners in the GOP presidential primary race. Ever since Perry hurled himself upon the scene and was instantly proclaimed...
View ArticleGOP Governors: EPA Carbon Dioxide Rules Job Killer
HOUSTON (AP) — Republican governors from oil-and-gas rich states said Monday that new federal rules designed to cut global warming pollution from power plants by 30 percent by 2030 will kill jobs and...
View ArticleLEED Silver-seeking Perry World House marries new and old at Penn
The newest building at the University of Pennsylvania also happens to be the oldest. This curious marriage of new and old is the Perry World House, the university’s new hub for international affairs....
View ArticleBiggest grid operator in US attacks Perry’s proposal to prop up coal
Energy Secretary Rick Perry is attempting to keep coal alive under the guise of grid resiliency , but the largest grid operator in the United States called on regulators to scrap the plan. PJM...
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