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Postcard from Medellin, Part 2: Are we better off being better off?
A Day in a Less Developed Life. Parque Biblioteca España, Medellín.The desire to create comfort and security for ourselves probably counts as one of the most rudimentary motivations in the human...
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Chevron taking its ball and going... to Texas. Global Day of Action ensues,...
Last year, a bunch of Bay Area cyclists heeded Bill McKibben's call to tell oil companies that the climate math doesn't add up when it comes to their business plans of burning massive reserves of...
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Letterman passes fracking torch, Colbert blows it up. SB1132 Blogathon gets...
David Letterman on Fracking:Ladies and Gentlemen, We're Screwed! Stephen Colbert, aka The Fracker:Come on, we're trying to throw a fracking party here, and these people are ruining it with their...
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Remembering the victims of a car-eat-bike world (Ride of Silence SF photo essay)
Last Wednesday night I joined about 80 fellow cyclists in a memorial ride to honor seven cyclists recently killed in the streets of San Francisco. The Ride of Silence, first held in Dallas in 2003...
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The Urban Metabolism: Understanding Your City by Understanding its Flow
Note:Climate change is the overarching environmental issue of our time and I'm a huge proponent of urging national and world leaders to take action. However, I often wonder what it is they're going to...
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Hurricane Odile, Most Intense One on Record, Strikes Baja California. Just...
I'm usually not the breaking news type diarist here, but it's perhaps a telling sign that in the age of extreme weather we've become so accustomed to outlandish storms that a hurricane as unusual in...
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Changing Tide Ahead!!! DA Drops Criminal Charges against Anti-Coal Activists...
This actually happened.Two climate activists were set to go on trial in Massachusetts on Monday for blocking the shipment of 40,000 tons of coal to the Brayton Point power plant, a 51-year-old facility...
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The People's Climate March: From Sea to Rising Sea Level. NorCal rally photo...
Impressions from Northern California People's Climate RallyLake Merritt Amphitheater, Oakland, CA, September 21, 2014
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How hard is it to serve a nutritious meal to 5000 people, using...
Well, really not that hard at all.Preparing dessert from rejected but delicious fruits at the Feeding the 5000 event in Nantes on September 25, 2014.Since the first Feeding the 5000 event was held in...
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WARNING: Graphic Humor May Cause Severe Climate Change Awareness
So here I am, fresh off the proverbial boat to witness Week 2 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Lima, Peru, aka COP20, or the 20th session of the Conference of the...
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Pachamama Rumblings in Lima! (Photo essay of the March in defense of Mother...
Yesterday the whole left brain greenhouse gas haggling exercise at the COP20 Climate Summit got a huge kick in the pants when 20,000 marching souls took to the streets of Lima for Latin America’s...
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Does your iPhone have an impact beyond the energy used to recharge it?
One of my beloved British pals proudly sent me a link to this encouraging news about UK energy use. UK using less energy despite growing economy, report findsPeople in the UK are using less energy even...
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How Gondolas and Hip Hop Transformed the Most Dangerous City in the World
Medellín went from being ground zero of Colombia's drug war to UN poster child for urban equality—and the people made it happen, by designing the city they wanted.Note:This article appears in Cities...
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What Santa does after Christmas
You'd think after sledding for thousands of miles to drop presents through chimneys across the world, Santa would be kicking it in his igloo penthouse, chilling in a massage chair with a bottle of...
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Turning Waste into Wine: A Pilgrimage to the Composted Land
It is said that Jesus was able to turn water into wine. While such truly miraculous skill to this day remains confined to the realm of saints and sages, I bring good news about a wine-making technique...
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Zen Monks to CA Governor Brown: "Don't even THINK about Fracking!"
I have a sticker in my office that says "Zen Buddhism: Don't even think about it!" This kind of humorous take often leads to the (false) perception that Buddhism and its more western-palatable...
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We did it! Biggest Anti-Fracking Demonstration in U.S. History! (photos galore)
So a bunch of concerned citizens of all stripes came out to Oakland yesterday to talk some fracking sense.More specifically, according to 350.org's count, over 8,000 of us marched...and gathered to...
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Get this: science denier David Koch sits on boards of America's science...
No more dinosaurs for you, Mr. Koch! You just can't make this stuff up! Science Museums Urged to Cut Ties With KochsSo David Koch, he of the oil and manufacturing conglomerate Koch Industries and the...
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A drop in the bucket?
In light of California's historic drought and Governor Brown's executive order to impose a 25 percent reduction on municipal water use, my partner and I thought about ways we can conserve more water...
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