Hurricane!

An educational post on how to live off the grid.

Our original thoughts proved to be correct: If we were to have a sustained growth of trees in the future for lumber and firewood and animal habitat then we had to take personal responsibility for the growth of the forest. It was up to us. Our lives are built in and sustained in much the same way. Stopping global warming and climate change has to be handled in much the same way. If we wait for governments to make changes we are not long for this planet... better to take the responsibility for your own actions.

Happy with the Cancun Club Med after a Hurricane Wilma experience there.

I’d been to Club Med Cancun two years previously when it was an adults only resort, and after the devastation of hurricane Wilma they recently re-opened as family friendly in November of 2006. Now, I’m not one to enjoy crowded swimming pools with screaming kids and waits for beach chairs or drinks, so I was a bit apprehensive when Kevin and I got on the plane. I really shouldn’t have worried. Kev and I really couldn’t believe our eyes.

After a disastrous wildfire season in Florida, maybe hurricanes don't look so bad.

Just might get that wish as hurricane season starts in 14 days.

Greenpeace says Exxon is still paying global warming skeptics.

New analysis of the latest ExxonMobil funding reports reveals that in spite of recent public statements to the contrary, the company continues to bankroll organizations that misrepresent the science and urgency of global warming.

Click through to try the carbon footprint calculator.

Zerofootprint.net is a go green site dedicated to lowering the carbon footprint of individuals all over the world. They offer a wide range of ways to help visitors to implement their goals for going green. But what we found the most interesting was the “Zerofootprint Carbon Calculator“, which is a cool tool in determining how many tonnes of carbon you produce each year.

Will global warming sink small islands like the Maldives?

Climate projections show that the Maldives could disappear by the end of the century as a result of rising sea levels because of global warming.

A look at some of the unfortunate results of the reorganization to create the Department of Homeland Security.

Unfortunately and tragically, we all know very well what happened in 2005 with Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We know that FEMA’s handing of the disaster did in many cases more harm than good. FEMA was so disorganized and incompetent in its management of the 2005 hurricanes that one can only wonder how much the internal disarray in the Department of Homeland Security may have contributed to that mismanagement.

From a transcript of an interview with Sea Shepherd Captain Paul Watson.

We were talking about global warming and the impacts of global warming 25 years ago but nobody was listening. 15 years ago they said we were full of it, 10 years ago we were all a bunch of commies who were trying to stop world corporations from making money. Nobody really listened and all of a sudden everybody’s like, ‘my god! What’s happening here!? Why didn’t somebody tell us about this!?

A summary of the book Heat by George Monbiot.

I saw Stephen Lewis speak and David Suzuki speak, and they both highly recommended the same book: Heat, by George Monbiot. So I read it, and it's changed how I look at the solution to climate change.