Given everything else that 2020 brought, Don and I are grateful to have moved into our zero-energy home before Covid grounded everyone. When everything shut down last March, my son and daughter-in-law, school principals in Miami, packed their four-year-old daughter Soraya in the car and drove to Indiana to stay with us and work […]
A majority of citizens in all 50 states supports continued U.S. participation in the 2015 Paris climate accord,as this Yale research on American opinion shows. About half of Trump supporters do as well. But not the White House. Last Thursday afternoon President Trump announced thathe will begin the process of withdrawing the U.S.from the historic […]
A great joy of driving through the midwest is seeing the growth of wind farms. Despite its poor record on climate preparedness, Indiana is ranked 12th in the nation in wind power. Fowler Ridge in northwest Indiana, for instance, with its 600 MW capacity, is one of the largest in the U.S., while the 500 […]
If you still hold stock in Exxon, it’s time to sell now. Ben Adler at Grist.com reported Tuesday (“ExxonMobil: Carbon caps? Fat chance. We’ll just keep on drilling”) on Exxon’s Monday shareholder report, which argued for business as usual, based on the assumption that the U.S. government will be unable to compel the necessary 80% […]