by Guest Contributor | Nov 24, 2013 | EarthDesk Sunday
«« »» Arend van Dam is a Dutch political cartoonist whose work has appeared in Reformed Netherlands, Central Weekly, Time, the Financial Times, and the Agrarian Dagblad among others. In addition to his cartoon work, he is also a book illustrator. He sometimes works...
by John Cronin | Nov 23, 2013 | Climate Change, Energy, Law & Policy
The global, political drama behind the Greenpeace protest at the Gazprom oil platform (EarthDesk, October 2) is being obscured by the news media’s longstanding fascination with cartoonish Russian and Soviet officials. Think Vladimir Putin shirtless, Leonid...
by EarthDesk | Nov 22, 2013 | General
So let us not be blind to our differences, but let us also direct attention to our common interests and the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the...
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 Guest Contributor | Nov 17, 2013 | EarthDesk Sunday
«« »» Buttercup Festival is the webcomic creation of artist and poet David Troupes. Though he brought Series II to an end on November 4, it and Series I reside in their full surreality, whimsy and beauty on his website here. He temporarily retired BF to focus on...
by John Cronin | Nov 15, 2013 | Climate Change, International, Law & Policy
Editor’s Note: The year 2013 is currently tied with 2003 as seventh of the top ten warmest years, according to a provisional report issued by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to coincide with COP 19, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change...
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...
by Guest Contributor | Nov 11, 2013 | Ecology, Economics, Higher Education, Law & Policy, Sustainability
Something new is now urgently needed and I think the colleges and universities can and should lead in finding it. By James Gustave Speth Editor’s Note: The address below was delivered Saturday by Gus Speth who was presented with “The Great Work Award in...
by Guest Contributor | Nov 10, 2013 | EarthDesk Sunday
For EarthDesk Sunday this week, a lovely iPhone video of hatching Queen Butterflies (Danaus gilippus) shot by Sasha Harris-Cronin while visiting the Butterflies and Blooms exhibit at the Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, which runs until...