by John Cronin | Apr 22, 2016 | General
When Senator Gaylord Nelson founded Earth Day, he envisioned a movement devoted to the environment and the human, to eradicating pollution as well as poverty, to assuring nature’s rights as well as civil rights, to fostering sustainability as well as peace.
by John Cronin | Dec 13, 2015 | Climate Change, General, Law & Policy, Pollution, Science, Sustainability, Technology
If “historic” and “landmark” are missing from your dictionary, it’s no wonder. They could use a break. Kudos are being heaped from quarters far and wide about the outcomes of COP21. But there are also sobering times ahead, by some reporters’ accounts.
by John Cronin | Jan 5, 2014 | EarthDesk Sunday
Note: Appropriately, our first musical guest ever on EarthDesk Sunday is Pace Academy’s own Andy Revkin. The story follows the video. In his 1972 book The Incompleat Folksinger, Pete Seeger recalled setting out on his own in the mid 1950s. His recollection may...
by John Cronin | Nov 19, 2013 | Climate Change, Corporate Responsibility, Energy
Did climate change cause Typhoon Haiyan? Time Magazine says no. Australia’s Sidney Morning Herald says yes. The UK’s Guardian says maybe. So goes the news media standoff on climate and superstorms. Duracell is less ambivalent. “There will be more...
by John Cronin | Nov 14, 2013 | Climate Change, Law & Policy, Pollution
Barely had Typhoon Haiyan moved on from its Philippines landfall before its origins were blamed on climate change. That nation’s climate representative, Yeb Sano, made an agonizing plea and pledged a hunger strike at COP 19, the UN Framework Convention on...