climate change – DISAPPEARING POLAR BEAR

A Cup of Ambition

Posted on September 11, 2019 by admin

With our world-wide caffeine addiction, coffee beans have become the number one traded agricultural commodity. Coffee trees are front-line environmental saviors as CO2 sinks, yet as climates are disrupted, trees will die. Coffee production is expected to drop 40 percent in the next ten years. Researchers are scrambling to breed heartier varieties that can withstand the challenges, and innovative approaches will ensure morning rituals will continue for the lucky few of wealth. As Climate Change heats up, your coffee consumption may have to cool down. […]

Pura Vida!

Posted on May 22, 2019 by admin

Step off the bus and smell the air. You can feel in your bones that it’s different here. Over 10,000 species of plants and trees are breathing in CO2 and breathing out oxygen. Costa Rica is one of the most biologically diverse pockets on the planet. Ancient trees host green ferns, mosses, and vines, layered like filo dough, all grappling upward, searching for the exchange of sunlight for energy. […]

Wildfires – The Past No Longer Predicts the Future

Posted on September 11, 2019 by admin

It had been a day of low humidity, strong winds, and lingering drought. We had experienced over 200 days with no significant precipitation. Driving home, I turned onto the boulevard and fear leaped into my chest! […]

Good-Bye, Kiribati

Posted on September 9, 2019 by admin

The children, their little brown bodies and silky-black sun-streaked hair shining, are bathed in the shallows after running unconstrained all day. A woman with a stick, bent doubled over, digs tiny protein-rich clams out of the sand to feed her infant. The strong young men, with their small, weathered, fishing boat, are sliding into the turquoise lagoon, spreading their hand-made nets to collect the hefty fish from the slow, outgoing tide. […]

Coping With the Consequences – A Framework for Hope

Posted on May 22, 2019 by admin

Unfortunately, freight ships don’t turn around quickly, and we have pushed the climate change ship too far down the line to avoid consequences. The throes of climate change are upon us. Our hurricanes are more furious and more frequent. Our droughts are longer. Our temperatures are hotter. The air is drier. Wildfires start quickly and […]