Sustainability Conference Sustains Interest

Shasta College’s third annual Sustainability Conference is scheduled for this Friday, April 22. The free event features speakers from the college and the community addressing a wide variety of subjects related to the environment – from geoengineering and climate change… Continue Reading

Shasta College Hosts Sustainability Conference Friday

What: Shasta College Sustainability Conference When: Friday (April 22), 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Where: Room 806, Shasta College Main Campus Cost: Free and open to the public Presentations include: Nuclear Power, Climate Change, Tools for Teaching Green, Farmers Facing Global… Continue Reading

National Parks Are Free Starting Saturday

Free. Gratis. No charge. On the house. You’ll hear something along those lines when you roll up to the entrance at Lassen Volcanic National Park anytime from this Saturday, April 17, through Sunday, April 25. It’s National Park Week, and… Continue Reading

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Our Broken Sky, Part Three

Click here to read “Our Broken Sky” Part One and Part Two. Twenty years ago the U.S. Government approved the first geoengineering patent to reduce “atmospheric warming due to the greenhouse effect resulting from a greenhouse gases layer.” “The method… Continue Reading

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Our Broken Sky, Part Two

Read Part One of “Our Broken Sky” here. In 1992, the National Academy of Sciences defined geoengineering as “large-scale engineering of our environment in order to combat or counteract the effects of changes in atmospheric chemistry,” including the build-up of… Continue Reading

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Our Broken Sky – Part One

“The reason I think geoengineering should be considered is I don’t think we are going to save the planet with the emissions-reductions approaches that are on the table. No one is taking the magnitude of the technological challenge seriously.” ~… Continue Reading

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‘Storms of My Grandchildren’

James Hansen is a scientist who is regarded as the world’s authority on global warming and climate change. He is also a grandfather who sees a train coming down the tracks, and his grandkids are on that train. There’s a bridge out up ahead. Nobody seems to see it – what do you do?, Continue Reading