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Category Archives: Politics
Tweet What is the connection between the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline that would carry Tar Sands Oil from Alberta, Canada to Texas, and my children’s health? And why would risk arrest to stop this pipeline from being build. As a … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Mama News, Health & Fitness, In The News, Politics, Renewable Energy, Take a Stand: Action & Advocacy
Tagged allergies & climate change, Asthma Climate change, climate change education, kids climate change, moms clean air force, poison ivy & climate change, tar sand action
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Tweet While I am a child of the ‘60’s I was too young to be part of the Vietnam protests or the rallies for the Environment leading up to the first Earth Day in 1970. As I learn more and … Continue reading
Tweet As parents, we need to continue looking for and sharing facts and reality with our children. Unfortunately facts and reality on climate science seem to be lacking in the “headlines” as denier voices seem to be grabbing all the … Continue reading
Tweet Question to self, do I want my kids to read this about me, and….do I believe in serendipity? [Serendipity: the phenomenon of finding valuable things not sought for.] A week after I visited the Canadian Tar Sands “to see … Continue reading
Tweet My take on the Canadian Tar Sands?! A juggernaut, seemingly unstoppable, a source of unimaginable profits for multinational energy companies versus shortsighted Russian roulette for the rest of us, for our planet, for our environment and for our economy. … Continue reading
Tweet Fort McMurray, Canada is home to the Tar Sands, one of the most controversial environmental flash points in the world. An ideal place for a special birthday celebration, you might say? I would hazard to guess that in most … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Mama News, Disasters, Politics, Renewable Energy
Tagged Alberta Tar Sands, For McMurray, oil sands, Tar Sands, XL Pipeline
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Tweet Go New Jersey! On June 29th, New Jersey became the first state in the USA to ban “fracking” a process used to extract natural gas which has quickly become extremely controversial. “Fracking” is and will be more and more … Continue reading
Tweet In a state that is second only to California in its progressive and positive business and policy stance on the environment, Gov. Christie, who campaigned as a “clean energy advocate” is pulling NJ from a more than 20 year … Continue reading
Posted in In The News, Politics, Renewable Energy
Tagged Gov Christie, NJ Clean Energy, NJ Energy Master Plan, RGGI
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Tweet What’s a Climate Mama to do when the Governor of her state tries to “unilaterally” take New Jersey out of the one operating program in the country set up to fight climate change by reducing power plant carbon emissions? … Continue reading
Tweet Noteworthy: On May 16th, 2011, the US Senate voted to maintain tax subsidies amounting to $2 billion a year for 5 multinational oil companies. In effect voting down a resolution that would have taken away the subsidies and would … Continue reading
