by Scott Chamberlin | Nov 20, 2021 | Mitigadaptation
“I am in love with Kelp.” Let Tiffany Stephens’ words resonate through your Saturday, and calm your climate anxiety.
“I am in love with kelp.” Let Tiffany Stephens’ words resonate through your Saturday… and calm your climate anxiety.
Love affairs with kelp aren’t some kind of fringe thing, aren’t only a remote Alaska thing. Down here in Santa Monica Bay — as far away from Seagrove Kelp Farm in Doyle Bay, in some ways, sadly, as you can be — there are also those who love kelp …
by Scott Chamberlin | Nov 7, 2021 | Mitigadaptation
Watching the COP26 global climate talks from a rooftop 5,115 miles away, one thing is clear: it’s time to do the work. There’s no more time for doubters or denial on the one hand, or indecision or political traffic jams on the other.
At this point, the climate action stage should be filled with creativity. The
by Scott Chamberlin | Jan 10, 2021 | Mitigadaptation
EVs are the stuff of myths. So many myths:
• They’re too expensive! (Nope.)
• Their batteries hemorrhage range as soon as you drive them off the lot! (Noooooope.)
• Worthless in cold weather! (Nope! And Norway!)
• They’re less green than normal cars! (NOPE.)
Let’s put that last old argument out to pasture once and for all ….
by Scott Chamberlin | Dec 20, 2020 | Mitigadaptation
It can be hard to conceive of an issue as big as climate change. Global warming is, after all, global — geographically but also as an idea. Reflecting its sprawling unknowability, some environmentalists like to say “think globally, act globally.” Others use the invented term “glocal” to describe a phenomenon that’s both planetary in scale and also felt and fought locally.
Still others — especially those themselves impacted — address the problem as purely locally as they do the rest of their lives.
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