Tag: Solutions
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SOLUTIONS 7/17: Our Changing World
By Huck Fairman A tropical storm came ashore near Atlantic City and blew up along much of the Mid-Atlantic coast, flooding roads and fields. High temperatures and humidity blanketed the East and other regions of the country. This, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) and other weather and climate predictions, around the world,…
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SOLUTIONS 7/3: The Coming Costs
By Huck Fairman Along with the spreading of the coronavirus, this country is facing a range of destructive changes from the climate crisis. And, not as widely recognized, the climate crisis is also resulting in escalating costs. NOAA warned last year that we faced 14 weather and climate calamities, each costing over $1 billion dollars…
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SOLUTIONS 6/26: Plastics everywhere in the warming air
By Huck Fairman A new report published in the journal, SCIENCE, warned that microplastics are everywhere, not only in the planet’s waterbodies but in the air we breathe. Tons of tiny plastic fragments rain down around the globe. Research has found evidence of airborne particles in Europe, China, the Arctic and the western United States.…
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SOLUTIONS 6/12: Fighting Trump’s Fuel-Efficiency Rollbacks
By Huck Fairman Having watched President Donald Trump’s denials, delays, lies and wild forays into questionable medicine, as well as his appointing law-breaking, self-serving, incompetent cabinet members and department heads, to list only a few of his transgressions, it should be no surprise that his administration continues to try to undo the largest effort by…
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SOLUTIONS 5/15: Community or Company Aggregation
By Huck Fairman As a long time Princeton resident, I have been interested in, and have written a number of, Packet opinion pieces on the climate crisis. I have reported on the ideas and policies recommended by a range of scientists and specialists. Recently, the Municipality of Princeton has announced a new plan to switch…
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SOLUTIONS 5/1: Renewable Energy Supply – A Tale of Two Rates
By Huck Fairman The Town of Princeton has admirably drawn up a number of steps to reduce the cost and the emissions, or pollution, stemming from power generation and usage, along with that from vehicles. These initiatives are joined together in the Princeton Climate Action Plan. Part of that plan was to provide residents with…
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SOLUTIONS 4/24: The Other Crisis
By Huck Fairman While we are contending with the coronavirus, we have another, potentially more devastating crisis looming, one that we are already well into. This is, of course, the climate crisis that has been impacting much of the world for a number of years now. Our primary source for measuring global climate trends, NOAA…
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SOLUTIONS 4/17: Get active, be vocal, work together with the Sierra Club
By Huck Fairman Although there is no doubt that we face a national (and global) emergency in the virus, there is also no doubt that we face a number of other very serious challenges. They include the climate crisis, and ongoing problems arising from inequality in education and income, inadequate infrastructure, and imbalances in our…
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SOLUTIONS 4/10: The changes around us
By Huck Fairman Change has arrived in our lives, partly by chance, partly by design. The virus and climate crisis have both spread through our communities of nations unrequested. And both have revealed to us that we must join together in new ways to overcome them. But change, at an admittedly slower pace, has been…
