Cherry blossom season is already in the rear view mirror, but tulip season is just beginning (at least in my yard… which is sometimes a whole week behind my neighbor’s garden).
This week’s must read: Regulations are holding the private sector back from finding climate solutions (The Miami Herald)
As I announced at the end of last year, our most prolific EcoRight writer Mary Anna Mancuso took a position on the Editorial Board of the Miami Herald. Here is her first editorial specific to climate change! Congrats, Mary Anna on the killer job and this most recent post.
“Tackling the climate crisis doesn’t have to wait for federal action,” she writes. “Across the country, and especially in Florida, we should shift our attention to the private sector for potential solutions — provided we can figure out ways to reduce the government red tape that hampers innovation.”
Way to go, Mary Anna!
EcoRight Speaks, Season 10, Episode 6, featuring Bill Chapman, founder of Conservative Climate Activists
This week’s featured guest is a long-time (and active) member of our community. Bill Chapman is an avid EcoRighter who has created a couple of different opportunities to engage conservatives on climate change. He’s the founder of Conservative Climate Activists, a conservative-leaning, market-oriented, pro-human, pro-technology group that believes that climate change is a dire situation. He hosts a monthly Climate Science and Energy Engineering Dinner in midtown Manhattan. And he’s a strong advocate for nuclear power.
Hope you enjoy this conversation!
Coming up next week, friend of republicEn.org and expert in climate and trade policy, Catrina Rorke from the Climate Leadership Council.
Another must read: No matter with the Department of Defense says, climate change remains a national security issue (The Invading Sea)
A few weeks ago, I reported about the Department of Defense eliminating climate change as a national security threat it prepared against. Well, I couldn’t let it go, so I did what I do and channeled my energy and angst into writing an op-ed.
Here’s a teaser:
“Considered a ‘threat multiplier’ by the military and CIA alike, climate change can have a destabilizing effect, exacerbating droughts, stoking resource wars and leading to humanitarian crises and mass migration of people. But the current administration — the only GOP-led executive branch in history to reject climate science — seems to think that by eliminating certain words from the federal government lexicon, they can ignore the problem.”
You can head to The Invading Sea to catch the rest.
Quote of the week: Dr. Katharine Hayhoe (Yahoo News)
“A thermometer does not give you a different answer depending on how you vote. As we saw illustrated so vividly with the hurricane that hit Florida and the Carolinas, with the wildfires in L.A., a hurricane does not knock on your door and ask you who you voted for before it destroys your home. A wildfire doesn’t look at your voting record before it burns down your neighborhood. Climate change affects us all. While politicians should be arguing, because that’s what they do best, they should be arguing about who has the best solution to climate change. I want to hear who has the best case to make for the set of solutions to help people the fastest and keep us safe.”
Wanna play in the dirt?
Yearning for some adventure and to try your hand at working to advance the clean energy transition in West Virginia? The Sludge Hub & Company is partnering with GROW Externships to host groups of emerging environmental professionals on to their network in the remote hollers of Appalachia. The program takes place directly on their flagship property, The Dirty Nine, with field trips to various research centers, mines, cultural heritage sites, and water treatment projects in the area. If you want to learn more, check out the embedded links!
And I’m off! See you next week!