Posted by Josh Mogerman in Solving Global Warming
Ahh, the Canadian tar sands industry. Unhappy that the dirty oil criticisms of their industry are sticking they are to once again change the name of their product rather than fix it. If it wasn't so irritating, it would be...
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Solving Global Warming
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch noted that a "veritable who's who of climate change skeptics and contrarians" will be gathering at a convention in Springfield, MO today. Speaking as a one-time resident of the Show-Me State, that news is disappointing enough---but...
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Solving Global Warming
In an odd quirk of timing, two competing visions of the Canadian tar sands hit the media today. I was pleased to see the announcement that the Society for Environmental Journalists had chosen Andrew Nikiforuk's "Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and...
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Solving Global Warming
Last week I had the opportunity to take a road trip to northwest Indiana. Riding shotgun was Canadian journalist and author, Andrew Nikiforuk, whose book Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent is selling like hotcakes in...
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Solving Global Warming
A friend who works for the monetary authority of a Caribbean island nation was in Chicago for an international money conference recently. Representatives from banking centers around the world had converged to discuss a crushing array of concerns---but these folks...
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Solving Global Warming
Things looked pretty rosy in Alberta last summer when oil was trading for $140/barrel. Investments flooded in from folks all over the world eager to stake their claim on the Canadian province's cash cow: tar sands. Sure, there were some...
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
I do a lot of the cooking in my house and Mark Bittman's book, How to Cook Everything, has become my kitchen bible. Bittman is not a chef. He's a journalist whose thoughtful stories have led him down a path...
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Solving Global Warming
The Rocky Mountain News published a strongly pro-tar sands Op Ed from a Colorado petroleum geologist over the weekend, entitled "Oil sands spell energy security." I don't claim to have aced any spelling bees -- but I do know my...
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Solving Global Warming
So last night in Chicago's Grant Park, I got the chance to watch election returns with 99,999 of my best friends. For the bulk of the evening, the crowd was glued to CNN reports on a jumbotron in the park's southeast...
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Solving Global Warming
Over and over we hear from dirty fuel advocates that the U.S. needs to use slop like tar sands and high sulfur coal so that it does not get shipped to places like China where the environmental standards are considered...
Posted by Josh Mogerman
Canada is the leading provider of oil to the US. But sadly, a growing percentage of that petroleum oozing south comes in the form of goop from Alberta's tar sands mines, most of which makes its way to the Great...
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...
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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...
