Posted by Josh Mogerman in Solving Global Warming
OK, let's be clear. I love my city. And with that love comes a grudging acceptance of Chicago's weather quirks---blizzards, heat waves, and everything in between. So, call me a booster, but I am extremely proud of the city's new effort to...
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Solving Global Warming
I’ve had that great 90’s hip hop tune “The Choice is Yours” in my head for a week now. It's been lodged there since I read comments from Shell’s chief executive in the The Guardian. What connects the Dutch oil giant...
Posted by Josh Mogerman
While reading coverage of the current Midwestern flood disaster, I was floored by this headline: 'Giant sponge' saved Gurnee from flooding. Had the wise residents of this northern Illinois town erected a loofah levee? Or rigged a mound of porous kitchen...
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Solving Global Warming
It is rare to find TV reality shows bumping heads with cutting edge science. But it happened last week with two unrelated releases… The CW network played the finale of its dating reality show, “Farmer Wants a Wife.” And The Climate Change...
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming
“Call back later---we are busy sandbagging.”That was all my worried sister-in-law heard from her former neighbors in Iowa City after calling to check up on them. The Iowa River runs through the leafy college town and after weeks of rain...
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Solving Global Warming
James Brown famously exclaimed “Give the drummer some…”BP could learn a lot from the late, great, Godfather of Soul.Last week was a very good one for the British oil giant. Tuesday, BP announced that they had brought in a jaw-dropping...
