By: Patty L. Buchanan The United Nations Environmental Program published a report this week analyzing global progress on reducing emissions, entitled the Emissions Gap Report 2020 (the Report). It’s mostly distressing news, with a few bright spots. Specifically, the Report considers how we are doing in meeting our 2030 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission reduction goals. It focuses on the gap between “where…
Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address Greetings to the Natural World
By Patty L. Buchanan Our modern-day Thanksgiving holiday has its roots in the coming together of the Indigenous North American people and the early European settlers. Our current environmental crisis stems from our fissure in our relationship with the natural world, a relationship Indigenous people hold sacred. Indigenous people live in daily and open recognition of their interconnectedness with the…
CURE100 Launched With Four Charter Chapters
By: Patty L. Buchanan The Croton100 and CURE100 Community has much to celebrate. This past week we reached a momentous milestone when we formally launched CURE100 with four charter chapters following a series of events that crystallized our vision to create replicable and scalable community-based solutions to the climate crisis. CURE100’s four new chapters are: our founding and flagship chapter…
Headwinds of Climate Change Resistance Were Weakened This Week
By: Patty L. Buchanan President-Elect Joe Biden has been clear and consistent throughout his campaign and in his messaging since the polls closed on November 3: He intends to prioritize action to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and to rejoin the Paris Agreement. Regardless of various positions on many issues that were in play during this election (I do not…
Reining in the Juggernaut of Global Warming
By: Patty L. Buchanan The month of October reminds me of the need to take action urgently and galvanize around climate education and advocacy. It was two years ago — October 2018 — that global scientists published the world’s most comprehensive report explaining the need for rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society if we are to…
The Beginning of the End of Fossil Fuels
By: Chandu Visweswariah The writing is on the wall: we are witnessing the beginning of the end of fossil fuels (as well as the beginning of the end of the internal combustion engine)! Fossil fuels are used in the electricity sector, transportation sector, for building heat and in industrial processes (like making cement and steel). By 2040, we need to…
How Bad Is It? How Can We Make It Better?
By: Patty L. Buchanan [Editor’s Note: This is the fifth post in a series of articles about Electric Vehicles marking Croton100’s participation in National Drive Electric Week, September 26-October 4, 2020.] The climate crisis is escalating because carbon emissions from fossil fuels that stay in the atmosphere for decades are heating our world to unprecedented temperatures, bringing us closer to…
Be Part of the Carbon Reduction Solution: Drive Electric
By: Patty L. Buchanan Image by: Driveelectricweek.org [Editor’s Note: This is the fourth post in a series of articles about Electric Vehicles marking Croton100’s participation in National Drive Electric Week, September 26-October 4, 2020.] The extreme weather events roiling the West, blowing down trees and buildings across the prairies and flooding the lowlands in the United States are a glimmer…
Give Carbon a Seat at the Table
By: Chandu Visweswariah [Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of articles about Electric Vehicles marking Croton100’s observation of National Drive Electric Week, September 26 to October 4, 2020.] We live in a topsy-turvy world. Increasingly, from world affairs to local matters, we put the cart before the horse, opinion is more important than fact, echo chambers serve…
Our House is on Fire and the School is Buying Another Gas Bus
By: Patty L. Buchanan [Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of articles about Electric Vehicles marking Croton100’s observation of National Drive Electric Week, September 26 to October 4, 2020.] Here are a few of this week’s news headlines: “The Effects of Climate Change, Including Wildfires, Threaten U.S. Financial Markets, a Federal Report Found,” “Wildfires and Extreme Weather…
