Climate Change

A new report says that in less than a decade, the plastics industry will contribute more to climate change than coal-fired power plants.

Author Richard Powers won the Pulitzer Prize for the #1 New York Times bestseller, “The Overstory.” His latest novel, “Bewilderment,” has already been shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize and longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction.

All summer long, Climate Smart Committees from New Lebanon, Chatham, Canaan, Austerlitz and East Nassau New York collaborated to bring Repair Café events to our region and there will be one on Saturday, Oct.23 from 10am-4 pm at the New Lebanon Fire House in New Lebanon, New York. Austerlitz Climate Smart Committee member Cara Humphrey joins us.

Hurricane Ida floods damaged an estimated 210,000 vehicles

Leading voice in the climate movement Paul Hawken has a new book entitled "Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation." It weaves justice, climate, biodiversity, equity, and human dignity into a seamless tapestry of action, policy, and transformation.

I called recently for religious voices on climate change to ring out more strongly. I’m not alone.

The evidence is all around us: Bigger and more deadly storms; once-in-a-1,000 years heat waves; much of Western North America in flames; and unprecedented flooding across the world. There is no doubt that global warming is real.

Dr. Samantha Montano discusses her new book "Disasterology: Dispatches from The Frontlines of The Climate Crisis."

I want to continue talking about the climate because we need to put what has been happening in another perspective. We’ve been talking about droughts in some places, overwhelming rain and floods in others, the intensification of storms, hurricanes, cyclones, and global sea rise.