Tag: Solutions
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SOLUTIONS 4/23: Warnings and Necessary Steps
By Huck Fairman In the last week, warnings from several sources were issued about the planet’s future. And along with them came strong recommendations for what should be done. As a necessary early step, President Joe Biden is scheduled soon to hold a virtual climate summit with world leaders. Its purpose is to reduce emissions…
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SOLUTIONS 4/2: Recycling Revisited
By Huck Fairman Why recycle? While most local residents support the idea and associated policies, many may not be aware of the widespread need and advantages of doing so. Recently, on a Sierra Club zoom meeting, Amy Menzel, communications manager for the Atlantic Counties Utilities Authority, provided an overview of the need for recycling. As…
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SOLUTIONS 3/12: Bill Gates: How we can survive
By Huck Fairman Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft; co-chair with his wife, Melinda, of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; and originator of Breakthrough Energy, focused on enabling green energy, has just written what may be the single most important book, “How To Avoid A Climate Disaster.” Basically, it lays out all the changes in…
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SOLUTIONS 3/12: The Latest on Electric Vehicles
By Huck Fairman As our planet warms and we experience extreme weather of all varieties, people, governments and manufacturers are seeking ways to reduce emissions. Because vehicles are a major source of those emissions, many in the same groups are turning to and encouraging the manufacture, usage and improvement of electric vehicles. While scientists and…
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SOLUTIONS 3/5: Endocrine Disruptors
By Huck Fairman “New York Times” columnist Nicholas Kristof reported on a recent book by epidemiologist Shanna Swan, “Count Down,” and studies by other scientists and professors that warn a class of chemicals is having serious impacts on our reproductive abilities. The chemicals are called endocrine disruptors. They, when they get into us, “mimic the…
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SOLUTIONS 2/26: Professor Stephen Pacala: What we need to do
By Huck Fairman Our latest winter snow and storms notwithstanding, our planet’s climates are warming. Scientists worldwide are pretty much in agreement that climate change will bring widely varying, even extreme, weather conditions. Facing heat, droughts, wildfires, floods, and freezes, it is clear to science, and a majority of citizens, that we need to move…
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SOLUTIONS 2/12: Electric Vehicles Begin to Address Emissions Issue
By Huck Fairman The climate challenges we all face are known by many around the world. What is uncertain is whether or not we as a species will respond in time to maintain the environments we depend on. Last week there was some good news: General Motors announced it will be manufacturing electric vehicles (EV)…
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SOLUTIONS: Professor provides assessment of where, environmentally, we are
By Huck Fairman With the election of President Joe Biden, who has stressed the need to deal with our environmental challenges, a number of observers have responded positively, while also warning that the world cannot afford to fall short in efforts to reduce and reverse global warming. Among them is Professor Michael Oppenheimer of Princeton…
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SOLUTIONS: Virtual exploration of our world
By Huck Fairman Since most of us can neither safely travel for exploration, nor want to, given the risks, another way to see our planet is available on the streaming service Discovery+. Its five episodes of “A Perfect Planet” will “examine the forces of nature that shape all life.” These include sunlight, weather, oceans, volcanoes…
