After my recent column on how big business is coming together to defend global warming legislation in California, I was overwhelmed by the number of notes I received asking about the state of the global warming debate. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is in shambles, the U.S. Senate is stymied, and the public is losing confidence that climate change is real. But this past summer’s crazy weather may be changing some minds. Read more...
Here’s a new piece I’ve written for The Atlantic — I’ve pasted it below — you can see the original here.
Cracking the Corporate Anti-Regulatory Consensus
By Adam Werbach
Could the closely watched ballot vote to repeal AB32, California’s landmark global warming emissions law, signal a historic shift in the corporate coalition? The battle appears to be the latest front in the war of the emerging clean economy against the incumbents. Read more...
Here is a new add for the new Nissan Leaf. It is a climate change narrative we have all seen before-with a twist. Can the polar bear move enough people to buy a car. Or is this just another creative execution that simplifies the reasons why someone would buy a product of the future. We’ll let you decide for yourself.
The spread of exotic species is familiar by now to most people on the planet. Global commerce has only increased the speed of travel of invasive plants and animals that crowd out the native flora and fauna. The costs can be almost incalculable. Read more...
“Green For All and Adam Werbach have long advocated a new people-centered approach to the environmental crisis, and they’ve come together with the Print Shop to bring their ideas to life through graphic design. The night will feature post-punk pioneer Bob Mould (Husker Du, Sugar) in the DJ booth. Green For All and the Post Family, have been working for weeks to create a new campaign for GFA that reflects the hope of a burgeoning green economy. Working with the master printers, Adam Werbach and artists Andrew Schoultz + Kyle Knobel have created Extinction/Adaptation. The book chronicles the things in our lives that are going extinct + the ways we’re adapting to the very strange world where we live. Set in the format of an ABC primer book, there will only be one hundred limited edition copies printed.”
See Launch post at the Levi’s site
Jamming phone lines, fax machines or e-mail boxes with messages has been a key tactic ever since I first became an environmental activist. I remember one Senator telling me in 1994, before the internet existed as we know it today, before Facebook and Twitter and mass e-mails, that his staff was literally weighing the letters on a scale that we were sending from Sierra Club members to gauge the interest of his constituents. It was back during the fight to save the California Desert. All of those letters did their part, and we eventually passed the California Desert Protection Act, creating Joshua Tree National Park and Death Valley National Park.Read more...
One of the major challenges facing cities around the world is public transportation. In China, they are thinking big and out of the box. With individual car growth out numbering the USA, China’s streets and highways are becoming increasingly crowded. Leaving little room for buses and other modes of public transportation.
The solution:
The Shenzhen Huashi Future Parking Equipment company is developing a “3D Express Coach” (also known as a “three-dimensional fast bus”). This bus as the picture shows will go right over traffic. I bet people will want to jump on the bus that jumps over traffic. Read more...
