Sustainability Action Programs and Focus Areas
Reality Check
We will either go extinct or come home to reality. Anything that is unsustainable will at some point not be sustained, it’s self terminating
An Urgent Call for a Safe Naismith Drive Bikeway
Are you one of the 59% of Lawrencians who would bicycle more if it were safe? Is a bike lane six-inch paint line no margin for safety? Do you not let your children bicycle to school? We've waited 41 years since the Pedalplan was adopted but not enacted, and it's...
Westar Tax on Solar and Wind – Rate Case Commenting
The deadline to send comments to the KCC is Friday, 26 May 2017, 5:00pm. After Westar Energy asked the Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) in 2015 if they could raise their monthly residential service charge to $50 for folks with rooftop solar or small wind, Westar...
Fracking the Flint Hills of Kansas
In August of 2016, we reported that an earthquake of 5.6 magnitude with an epicenter near Pawnee OK was felt on 27 August across the Midwest, including in Lawrence KS. The Oklahoma Geological Survey said that it considers the cause very likely to be wastewater wells...
Forests – the Best Carbon Sink Available: Let’s Keep it That Way
For a livable planet, humans must not just reduce our emissions, but we must remove CO2 from the atmosphere. Forests do that, without any effort by humans.
Omnia Sunt Communia: On the Commons and the Transformation to Postcapitalism
Peter Linebaugh,s gives us a great review of Massimo de Angelis' book Omnia Sunt Communia: On the Commons and the Transformation to Postcapitalism . It made me want to go out and get the book. Linebaugh fills in much in the broad story of the privatized of the...
Squeaky Wheel for Safe Bikeways
The squeaky wheel gets the grease, as the saying goes. Be a squeaky wheel for a safe bicycle transportation network
Down the Slippery Slide to Perdition: Capitalists’ Covet Our Parks, Our Commons
Community opposition to the Plei whitewater recreation center currently proposed for Clinton State Park
CleanAirNow sponsors WEALTH Day at the Kansas Statehouse
Members of CleanAirNow attended the Climate + Energy WEALTH Day at the State Capital, and hosted a booth at the Solutions Showcase.
Unintended Consequence
Is Trump an unintended consequence of pervasive lead poisoning?
Sustainability Action Initiatives: Public Policy and Local Issues
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