Deprecated: Creation of dynamic property DUP_PRO_Global_Entity::$notices is deprecated in /home2/imszdrmy/public_html/wp-content/plugins/duplicator-pro/classes/entities/class.json.entity.base.php on line 244
Environment Archives - Page 4 of 13 - Occasional Planet
Skip to content

Occasional Planet

Progressive Voices Speaking Out

  • Home
  • About
  • Contributors
  • Contact
  • FAQ
  • Click Quotes
  • Who am I?
  • Infographics

Category: Environment

flushing

Adventures in flushing: Colombia edition

May 16, 2015 Christopher Burke Environment, International One comment

We sanitize happily in the United States. In fact, we are blessed to not have to pay a lot of attention to our toilets

Continue reading

TPP: What Bernie Sanders can do and Barack Obama can’t, or won’t

May 13, 2015 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Activism, Banks, Economy, Environment Leave a comment

Being a United States Senator from Vermont is a difficult job, but it pales in comparison to being President of the United States. As

Continue reading

Keystone pipeline vote: corporate money trumps public good

February 6, 2015 Madonna Gauding Climate Change, Congress, Energy, Environment, Obama Leave a comment

The fossil-fuel industry is reaping the rewards of its three-quarters of a billion dollar investment to secure a Republican controlled congress. But they weren’t just buying

Continue reading

Claire McCaskill’s doomed love affair with Keystone XL

February 2, 2015 Willy Kessler Congress, Energy, Environment, Missouri region, Senate One comment

Today Claire McCaskill did it. She voted with all Senate Republicans and nine Senate Democrats to pass the House’s Keystone XL authorization. Of course,

Continue reading

The People’s Climate March, Howard Zinn, and why we all need to join in

September 17, 2014 Renee Shur Activism, Climate Change, Environment Leave a comment

When I first got wind of the People’s Climate March taking place in New York City on September 21, my first thought was “will

Continue reading

Health risks demand a moratorium on fracking

September 2, 2014 Barton Schoenfeld Activism, Consumer issues, Energy, Environment, States Leave a comment

A rapidly growing body of research demonstrates that hydraulic fracturing poses dangers not only to the environment but to people’s health. Once contamination occurs

Continue reading

We’ve adjusted to the new normal, and that’s unfortunate

August 5, 2014 Susan Cunningham 2014 Election, Activism, Energy, Environment Leave a comment

Don Corrigan, newspaper editor, author and college professor, taught us something new at the Missouri Progressive Action Group meeting on Saturday. In addition to

Continue reading

Al Gore’s good news (for a change) on climate and renewable energy

July 14, 2014 Renee Shur Climate Change, Energy, Environment Leave a comment

Eight years ago. Al Gore released “An Inconvenient Truth,” the book and documentary film that laid out the scientific consensus connecting the burning of

Continue reading

Microbeads: A not-so-tiny problem

July 11, 2014 Mary Di Valerio Activism, Consumer issues, Environment Leave a comment

  In the well-lit aisles of your drugstore, millions of tiny and dangerous pollutants lurk in the cheerful packaging of your favorite exfoliating cleansers.

Continue reading

Give her a break. It’s not easy to run for office in coal country

June 9, 2014 Arthur Lieber 2014 Election, Energy, Environment Leave a comment

As a supporter of environmental protection, I think that, in the macro sense, we can place strict environmental regulations on our energy companies and

Continue reading

Posts pagination

«Previous Posts 1 2 3 4 5 6 … 13 Next Posts»

In case you missed it

  • Starship Troopers and the Degeneration of Parody
  • The Fairness Party
  • “Secular Humanists with Jewish Last Names”
  • An (Updated) Honest Preview of the 2022 Midterms
  • Rescuing Susan Collins – Make Judicial Nominees Speak the Truth
  • Doing the world a world of good

A new book by Arthur Lieber. Political Introverts: How Empathetic Voters Can Help Save American Politics.  Buy it here.

Gloria Shur Bilchik’s new book, Election Insiders: Behind the scenes with the people who make your vote count. Kindle edition now available at Amazon.

Follow Occasional Planet on social media

Newsletter
Twitter
RSS
Facebook

Top posts

  • Emperor: When you call a movie “historical,” it helps to include the history part
    Emperor: When you call a movie “historical,” it helps to include the history part
  • St. Louis High School Democrats endorse candidates in area primaries
    St. Louis High School Democrats endorse candidates in area primaries
  • Climate Counts: Rating companies by their environmental impact
    Climate Counts: Rating companies by their environmental impact
  • Can we please not start with, “I believe in the Second Amendment”
    Can we please not start with, “I believe in the Second Amendment”
  • Hog Hell: How a citizen lobby influenced policy in North Carolina
    Hog Hell: How a citizen lobby influenced policy in North Carolina
  • The unofficial Congressional book club
    The unofficial Congressional book club