Global heating: Study shows impact of ‘climate racism’ in US – ‘Black people living in most US cities are subject to double level of heat stress as their white counterparts’
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3963204/posts Global heating: Study shows impact of ‘climate racism’ in US by BBC via Yahoo / A new study says that black people living in most US cities are subject to double the level of heat stress as their white counterparts. The researchers say the differences were not explained by poverty but by historic racism […]
Eco-sins: Progressive seminary urges people to ‘confess to the plants in your life’ as part of ‘building new bridges to the natural world’
A progressive New York based seminary committed to social justice is urging people to “confess” to their plants. “Today in chapel, we confessed to plants. Together, we held our grief, joy, regret, hope, guilt and sorrow in prayer; offering them to the beings who sustain us but whose gift we too often fail to honor. […]
AlterNet: Pets ‘Public Enemy Number Two’ Due to ‘Negative Impact’ on Climate
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/joseph-rossell/2014/11/20/alternet-pets-public-enemy-number-two-due-negative-impact-climate
From get a vasectomy to save the planet guy: Wash., mudslide: ‘Climate change may bring more such disasters’
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/03/24/oso_wash_mudslide_climate_change_may_bring_more_such_disasters.html