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Showing posts with label Barack Obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barack Obama. Show all posts
22 January 2017

Okay, We're Awake Now — Let's Take This Back

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I marched yesterday. Well, I strolled in the sunshine. But it was with a couple of dozen other people in my community, including some men...
16 November 2014

A Big Step in the Right Direction: China and the US Agree to Do the Right Thing on Climate Change

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Several years before I started hearing about climate change (and way before I morphed into a climate change activist), I made a childhood dr...
14 September 2014

The Saddest of Déjà Vus, All Over Again

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Remember Libya ? Yeah, it wasn't that long ago. But the war drums didn't stop beating in the Middle East. And now the American p...
24 August 2014

Have We Waited Too Long? Is It Too Late?

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Was it just last week that I suggested we could "make it" if we took the bold step of throwing our military resources (funds and...
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20 July 2014

Is "Hope" Making a Comeback?

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We are all connected. Each baby born carries a miracle inside. A unique purpose and that miracle is promised to one person and one person a...
04 May 2014

"Our Enemies Teach Us What We Must Do"

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"Our friends show us what we can do;  our enemies teach us what we must do." ~ Goethe I have a great example of that quote ...
06 April 2014

We're Getting Close to a Breakthrough in Public Understanding of Climate Change, But World Leaders Are Still Dense

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The IPCC AR5 WGII SPM is out. Isn't that exciting? Wait, what? The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Repor...
14 July 2013

Inspiration Versus Cynicism (Which One's Winning?)

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Abandoned car in Toronto's flooding, July 2013 The last few weeks have been downright Biblical, haven't they? Killer wildfires....
23 June 2013

Getting Tired of the Rhetoric

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Last night, I was already in bed when I heard Barack Obama's voice. It was a nice voice. Calm and soothing. It sounded confident. Very...
11 December 2011

We are Aborting Our Children's Future

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Each week, I read many different things that I'd like to tell you about on Sundays when I write this blog, but of course I can't sha...
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30 October 2011

One Month Until This Year's Climate Change Circus Begins!

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From Bali in 2007 (when we still thought we had a chance to get it right) to Poznan (where nothing whatsoever seemed to happen), then from C...
28 November 2009

8 Days to Copenhagen - This is Starting to Sound Like a Christmas Song

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Come on, sing along! With only 8 days til Copenhagen, my true love said to me ... ... Obama said he's going ... what's up with our ...
29 October 2009

38 Days - When 1000 is Greater than 300,000

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American president Barack Obama has declared that the H1N1 flu is a national emergency. Because more than 1000 people have died. So — and he...
26 June 2009

163 Days - Note to President Obama: Please Leave Your Coal in the Ground!

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We had strong suspicions when we saw support ads for Obama's presidential candidacy from the American coal industry, but now we have con...
13 June 2009

176 Days - A Simple Action: Ask World Leaders to Actually Attend the Talks!

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Here is a Greenpeace International petition that is definitely worth the ten seconds it will take to sign: Astoundingly, few of the world...