100 solutions to climate change
Just saw this great Ted Talk and thought it should be shared, What if we took out more greenhouse gases than we put into the atmosphere? This hypothetical scenario, known as “drawdown,” is our only hope of averting climate disaster,…
It’s more than just the weather.
In 1870: the United States 15th Amendment was ratified, giving African American males the right to vote. Christmas became a national holiday. The Franco-Prussian War began. And the US Weather Bureau, the precursor to the National Weather Service (NWS) was…
Cooling Down Our Climate, One Reflective Surface at a Time
Kurt Shickman became the executive director of Global Cool Cities Alliance, a project of the Trust for Conservation Innovation in June, 2011. We caught up with him to learn more about his commitment to cooling down the planet. What does…