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Transportation of past and future.

Many thanks to the Irish Examiner for this article explaining the legal case. As a reminder, “Ireland [will become] world’s first country to divest from fossil fuels.” Ireland’s former President Mary Robinson has been a powerful force in climate-awareness. Ireland is a good best-practices model for other countries. Here are excerpts from the Irish Examiner article:…

“Massive California fire jumps over river and roars into city of 95,000 people” (94,127 views since yesterday) “The deadly fire in the city of Redding, three hours north of San Francisco and near the Oregon border, was only around 5% contained having grown overnight by 35% to 127 square miles.” “Greek firefighters join public outcry…

Thanks to blog visitors this week from United States, Ukraine, Russia, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, Germany, Denmark, France, Peru, United Kingdom, and Nigeria.

Dallas “Record-setting July 19” at 108 F (Click to see melting crayon art video.) “Los Angeles set a new all-time high on July 6, when temperatures reached 111 degrees, and cities in Vermont, New Hampshire and Colorado also set new records.” On July 5 Ouargla, Algeria, “with a population of half a million,” was 124.3 degrees (and “likely broke…

This short film reminds me of the March 30, 2017 missoulanews.com article “Hooking fly fishers on climate change” by Alex Sakariassen.  

I enjoyed presenting today at the annual CA Higher Education Sustainability Conference (CHESC) on the UC Santa Barbara campus.  The session was “Sustainability Through a Humanities Lens,” and also featured Kristin Hogue, Student Engagement Fellow, UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative, and Juan E. Campo, PhD, Professor, Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara. The moderator was David Braun, Professor…

Some say nearby She Who Watches pictograph is about looking over her children. Others say it is a death mask about diseases brought by settlers. Maybe it will take tearing down upriver dams to get young people to stop killing themselves. This poem/film is from my forthcoming book Carbonfish Blues (Fomite, 2018), and is about…