Climate Change. Around the Earth, scenes like this are happening in someone's neighborhood.

 In Nashville Climate change: This was yesterday, who's neighborhood today?

In California Climate change: This was yesterday, who's neighborhood today?

In Madison Climate change: This was yesterday, who's neighborhood today?

Remember our Founders. Remember who we are. Remember what we do.

The Founders and Climate Change

Looking for work? You should know about climate change.

Government Inaction Is Turning Off Investors Who Want To Back Green Energy

Companies want workers who think realistically about the future.

Would the opposition please look at the other side? Just look. There is no bad intent.

The White House Blog

Climate change is occurring 10 to 100 times faster than in the past and ecosystems will find it hard to adjust

Today's Climate Change Proves Much Faster Than Changes in Past 65 Million Years

Local = Global, Global = Local

Solar Electric Light Fund

Another perspective of climate change and the Chicago training

Mommy Blog SNO

Climate change remains a material risk for a majority of investors

Investors See Climate Change as Risk That Influences Decisions: Report

About 81 percent of asset owners and 68 percent of asset managers said they view climate change as a material risk across their entire investment portfolio in the third annual Global Investor Survey on Climate Change. Most of the remaining respondents identified climate risks only for certain asset classes, such as real estate and infrastructure.

Seafood is a staple of many diets. Estuaries are important to seafood.

Climate Change Threatens U.S. Estuaries

Estuaries are places where rivers meet the sea, providing nursery habitat for fish and shellfish while buffering many coastal communities from the impacts of coastal storms and sea level rise.

Warmer climate strongly affects human conflict and violence worldwide, says study

Climate Change And Violence Linked, Breakthrough Study Finds

"The biggest culprit: higher temperatures. Out of 27 modern societies studied, all 27 showed a positive relationship between higher temperatures and violence."

"“Our results shed new light on how the future climate will shape human societies,” said Burke.  The findings of the study suggest that a global temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius could increase the rate of intergroup conflicts, such as civil wars, by over 50 percent in many parts of the world."

NOAA State of the Climate in 2012

State of the Climate in 2012 - NOAA

Supporting the Rights of People Living with Disabilities

At least 57.8 million Americans live with one or more disabilities. Despite that, the U.S. Senate has so far refused to ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This international treaty would strengthen and protect the rights — including the human right to water, which UUSC promotes worldwide — of people too often ignored. Last year, U.S. ratification of the treaty failed by just five votes.

Republicans Threaten Networks Over Projects on Hillary Clinton

"The chairman of the Republican National Committee threatened on Monday to refuse to partner with CNN or NBC on any presidential primary debates if the two networks move ahead with plans for television projects on Hillary Rodham Clinton."

APS Wants to Tax the Sun?

Solar Flame War in Arizona, Coming Your Way Soon..

Why do we play down the horror of climate change?

Jonathon Porritt wonders why we moderate the 'scary' impacts of global warming to avoid alienating people

"Don't let the prospect of impending disaster crush your spirits. Don't let the prospect of a suboptimal long-term future kill your hope. Hope for the unlikely! Work for the unlikely!" 

A website for crowd-funding climate projects.

I have been talking to people who could not raise the money for their trip to Chicago and a person from Nepal trying to start a paper book library on climate change. This is the best site I have found to do this. indiegogo. Does anyone have any input?

The Virtues of Government Secrecy

The false choice between “secrecy” and “transparency” in the Manning and Snowden debate.

"It’s Sunday evening, and my head is still spinning after spending three amazing days at Climate Reality Leadership Corps training in Chicago last week."

Hashtag Reality | Main Street Climate

NASA data and graphs here:

NASA climate data

It is so good to be back at Ataraxia after the hectic pace of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps training with Al Gore in Chicago. 

Today is Sunday and I just returned from the Coventry Farmer's Market. "Wooo hooo…we’ve been cited as New England’s BEST farmers’ market byYankeee Magazine AND selected as one of USA Today’s “Top 10 great places to shop at a farmers market!” reads their home page.

It is my favorite week, "Dog days" where I get to pet every breed of dog imaginable, big and small, old and young and visit with my friends at Sadie Mae Foundation. I have already posted pictures on Facebook. Some of my friends in the climate change movement have already seen them, and if you look back in the archives you will see that I have written about it before.

After doing the rounds at least twice, I was getting hungry. While walking between the many booths selling local, organic food masterpieces I noticed a glaring oversight. Trash bins filled with mixed trash and NO recycling receptacles. I headed straight to the market's administrative/souvenir table to suggest a change, and was given the impression that the Nathan Hale Homestead, on who's ground the event is held, was the problem. Well, I know the administration and staff of the homestead well so I marched up to their office and spoke with the site administrator, Bev York. Apparently, they have been trying to get the farmer's market people to do the right thing for years. This season, they started to do what they could themselves. "The Hale Homestead Youth program called The Young Friends of Hale are recycling cans and bottles starting the season of 2013" said Bev.

OK, I'm getting a bit angry now. Those who know me also know how far I will go to find the truth and make things right. I march back to the market's table. Apparently I got the wrong impression, they say. I pointed out their responsibility to do what is right. They blamed the company that handles their trash at the event. I pointed out that they could change trash companies. By now they were becoming angry at me? I walked away steaming and here I am with my metaphysical brick. I looked up Connecticut's recycling laws (apparently they didn't, and I am giving them the benefit of the doubt here). Not only are they not "doing the right thing", they are breaking the law in order to "not do the right thing. Here is the link: Recycling...It's the Law!

I still support my local farmers and craftspeople. I will continue to return to the market every Sunday. Next week I expect to see recycling receptacles provided by the market, not the homestead. If you generate the trash, it is your responsibility!!! If there are none, put your cans and bottles in the homestead's recepticles and hand over every other recyclable, but non-returnable, item to someone at the market's table. Tell them I sent you.

The planet is undergoing one of the largest changes in climate since the dinosaurs went extinct.

Climate change on pace to occur 10 times faster than any change recorded in past 65 million years, Stanford scientists say

Not only is the planet undergoing one of the largest climate changes in the past 65 million years, Stanford climate scientists Noah Diffenbaugh and Chris Field report that it's on pace to occur at a rate 10 times faster than any change in that period. Without intervention, this extreme pace could lead to a 5-6 degree Celsius spike in annual temperatures by the end of the century"

Carbon has a price.

Put a price on carbon pollution and make the polluters pay for the damage they are doing to our environment.

"We need to put a price on carbon to sharply diminish the amount of carbon pollution in our atmosphere and encourage innovation in sustainability. Carbon dioxide is one of several heat-trapping greenhouse gases emitted by humans. The scientific consensus is that human-induced greenhouse gas emissions are the primary cause of global warming, and that carbon dioxide is the most important of these gases. A carbon tax would be a cost effective way to hold the biggest polluters accountable for their actions, and we could use this tax to help the people impacted by the pollution the most - the poor. A number of countries have already implemented carbon taxes or energy taxes that are related to carbon content."