How This Solar Town Survived Hurricane Ian Shows the Promise of a Green Energy Future

Florida, Babcock Ranch, first Solar Powered planned community. (Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) The Babcock Ranch community near Ft Meyers shows building a resilient and low-carbon America will save both money and lives. We need to start now. THOM HARTMANN October 4, 2022 (CommonDreams.org) The… Continue reading

‘Doing This for My Son’: UK Climate Activist Gives Interview While Handcuffed, Hauled Off by Cops

A climate campaigner is carried off London’s Waterloo Bridge during an October 2, 2022 Just Stop Oil protest in the British capital. (Photo: Zoe Broughton/screen grab) “The government’s inaction on climate change is a death sentence to us all,” the Just Stop Oil protester said. BRETT WILKINS October 3, 2022… Continue reading

“Life and Debt” | Normal Ain’t Normal With Rosario Dawson

BuzzFeedVideo Sep 27, 2022 A powerful yet paranoid yoga teacher struggles with massive medical bills and her own fraught emotional state in the aftermath of a Covid hospitalization. Starring Rosario Dawson and Tristan Cunningham, created by Offsides Productions. New episodes of #NormalAintNormal coming every Tuesday right here on Buzzfeed. Credits:… Continue reading

Earth Still “Careening Headlong into Climate Catastrophe,” Says NASA Scientist

Democracy Now! Sep 28, 2022 NASA successfully crashed a robotic spacecraft into an asteroid this week, a first-of-its-kind test of technology that could prevent a comet or asteroid from hitting the Earth, though the chances of such a catastrophe are low. We speak with NASA climate scientist Peter Kalmus, who… Continue reading

Here Are the Hundreds of SF Archdiocese Catholic Clergy Accused of Sexual Abuse

30 SEPTEMBER 2022/SF NEWS/JOE KUKURA (SFist.com) On Thursday, a group of Catholic Church sexual abuse survivors revealed a public list of 312 clergy and non-ordained church staff of the Archdiocese of San Francisco who stand credibly accused of sexual abuse, a list Archbishop Cordileone has long refused to disclose.  … Continue reading