Great article in the NYtimes about race and multi-race. NYtimes: In another time or place, the game of “What Are You?” that was played one night last fall at the University of Maryland might have been mean, or menacing: Laura Wood’s peers were picking apart her every feature in an effort to guess her race. “How [...]
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NYtimes: Black? White? Asian? More Young Americans Choose All of the Above
Posted: January 30, 2011 by treylord in NYtimes1
NYtimes Op-Ed: Weird Weather in a Warming World
Posted: September 8, 2010 by treylord in new york times, NYtimesNYtimes: GIVEN the weather of late, extremes seem to have become the norm. New York City just had its hottest June-to-August stretch on record. Moscow, suffering from a once-in-a-millennium heat wave, tallied thousands of deaths, a toll that included hundreds of inebriated, overheated citizens who stumbled into rivers and lakes and didn’t come out. Pakistan is reeling from [...]
NYtimes Op-Ed: Disaster at the Top of the World
Posted: August 23, 2010 by treylord in Climate Change, Environment, NYtimesTHOMAS HOMER-DIXON in the NYtimes: STANDING on the deck of this floating laboratory for Arctic science, which is part of Canada’s Coast Guard fleet and one of the world’s most powerful icebreakers, I can see vivid evidence of climate change. Channels through the Canadian Arctic archipelago that were choked with ice at this time of [...]
NYtimes/Kristof Op-Ed: 1 Soldier or 20 Schools?
Posted: July 29, 2010 by treylord in Afghanistan, Education Policy, International Development, NYtimesI’m gonna go with the schools. Education is sustainable, equitable, and doesn’t involve massive amounts of military-grade douchebagery. Nicholas Kristof’s Op-Ed in the NYtimes: The war in Afghanistan will consume more money this year alone than we spent on the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War and the Spanish-American [...]
NYtimes GreenBlog Q. and A.: The Population Guru
Posted: May 13, 2010 by treylord in Environment, NYtimes, Population, UncategorizedHad a discussion on this exact topic with someone the other night. No one wants to talk about it. We talked about it. It’s environmentalists’ little secret. These aren’t new ideas. Malthus and Hobbes, amongst others, have been saying the same thing for centuries. NYtimes Green Blog: By JIM WITKIN Paul Ehrlich, the biologist and professor [...]
Krugman/NYtimes: Drilling, Disaster, Denial
Posted: May 3, 2010 by treylord in Environment, Fossil Fuels, NYtimes, Paul Krugman, UncategorizedSeriously, enough with the fossil fuel-related disasters already. Take the hint……… In a world which requires accountability, the old-world half-assed means of harnessing energy at the expense of marine ecosystems or on the backs of blue-collar workers is over. I’m not saying that there won’t be the occasional wind farm problem, but jesus christ. Krugman: [...]
NYtimes: Tribes of Amazon Find an Ally Out of ‘Avatar’
Posted: April 11, 2010 by treylord in Amazon, Avatar, NYtimes, Rainforests, UncategorizedNYtimes: VOLTA GRANDE DO XINGU, Brazil — They came from the far reaches of the Amazon, traveling in small boats and canoes for up to three days to discuss their fate. James Cameron, the Hollywood titan, stood before them with orange warrior streaks painted on his face, comparing the threats on their lands to a [...]
NYtimes: South Africa Energy Needs Collide With U.S. Policy
Posted: April 7, 2010 by treylord in Climate Change, Coal, NYtimes, South Africa, Uncategorized, World BankMy (Trey) work mentioned in the NYtimes. Shit is crazy. NYtimes: JOHANNESBURG — The Obama administration, caught in an awkward bind between its own ambitions on climate change and Africa’s pressing energy needs, is facing the first test of its new guidelines discouraging coal-fired power projects in developing nations. This week, the World Bank will [...]
Paul Krugman: Going to Extreme
Posted: March 26, 2010 by treylord in Healthcare, NYtimes, Paul Krugman, UncategorizedKrugman in the NYtimes: I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law. But a few days later, it doesn’t seem quite as entertaining — and not just because of the wave of vandalism and threats aimed at Democratic lawmakers. For if you care about America’s future, you [...]
NYtimes: Talks to Address Trade in Tuna and Ivory
Posted: March 15, 2010 by treylord in Environment, NYtimes, UN, UncategorizedEvidently dolphin safe tuna isn’t safe for tuna. And seriously Tanzania? Are you crazy? What will it take for Japan to get on board with the rest of the world, and stop killing absolutely everything in the ocean? NYtimes: Marathon negotiations on protecting the planet’s endangered species open on Saturday in Qatar with tensions bubbling [...]
NYtimes Op-Ed by Al Gore: We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change
Posted: February 27, 2010 by treylord in Al Gore, Climate Change, NYtimes, UncategorizedPoignant. Al Gore in NYtimes: It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it. Of course, we would still need to deal with the national security [...]
NYtimes: Can Condoms Help Save Polar Bears?
Posted: February 22, 2010 by treylord in Climate Change, Condoms, NYtimes, Polar Bears, Population, UncategorizedOddly enough, I do think of polar bears frequently during sex………weird. It’s a good point though. First step to curbing emissions, is curbing people. I’m looking at you MTV’s “16 and Pregnant” NYtimes Green Inc. Blog: An environmental group is distributing hundreds of thousands of free condoms with hopes that it will educate the public [...]
NYtimes Editorial: The Case for a Climate Bill
Posted: January 25, 2010 by treylord in Climate Bill, Climate Change, NYtimes, ObamaNYtimes: The conventional wisdom is that the chances of Congress passing a bill that puts both a cap and a price on greenhouse gases are somewhere between terrible and nil. President Obama can start to prove the conventional wisdom wrong by making a full-throated case for a climate bill in his State of the Union [...]
NYtimes: No Slowdown of Global Warming, Agency Says
Posted: December 8, 2009 by treylord in Global Warming, NYtimesHere is a shocker: Global warming is real, and an acceleration of our emissions is resulting in an acceleration of the warming. Dinosaurs also predate mankind, and the H1N1 vaccine doesn’t kill you. NYtimes: COPENHAGEN — Despite recent fluctuations in global temperature year to year, which fueled claims of global cooling, a sustained global warming [...]
NYtimes: The Road to Copenhagen – Tree Harvester Offers to Save Indonesian Forest
Posted: November 30, 2009 by treylord in Climate Change, Copenhagen, Environment, Indonesia, NYtimes, REDDOk, so I admittedly have been slacking on posting updates from the whole “Road to Copenhagen” process but frankly there is just too much happening to really make sense of it and there are daily BREAKING NEWS that aren’t that interesting, such as Obama setting emissions targets, the African delegation walking out of talks, the [...]
Krugman: The Politics of Spite
Posted: October 5, 2009 by treylord in Conservatives, NYtimes, Paul Krugman, RepublicansOp-ed by Paul Krugman in the NYtimes: There was what President Obama likes to call a teachable moment last week, when the International Olympic Committee rejected Chicago’s bid to be host of the 2016 Summer Games. “Cheers erupted” at the headquarters of the conservative Weekly Standard, according to a blog post by a member of [...]
Paul Krugman: It’s Easy Being Green
Posted: September 25, 2009 by treylord in Environment, NYtimes, Paul KrugmanNYtimes: So, have you enjoyed the debate over health care reform? Have you been impressed by the civility of the discussion and the intellectual honesty of reform opponents? If so, you’ll love the next big debate: the fight over climate change. The House has already passed a fairly strong cap-and-trade climate bill, the Waxman-Markey act, [...]
NYtimes: White House Official Resigns After G.O.P. Criticism
Posted: September 7, 2009 by treylord in Environment, NYtimes, Obama, Republicans, Van JonesNYtimes: White House officials on Sunday tersely accepted the resignation of the administration’s special adviser for environmental jobs after a number of his past statements became fodder for conservative critics and Republican officials. The adviser, Van Jones, a controversial and charismatic community organizer and “green jobs” advocate from the San Francisco Bay Area, signed a [...]
NYtimes: A Farm on Every Floor
Posted: August 24, 2009 by treylord in Environment, NYtimes, Vertical FarmingNYTimes: OP-ED CONTRIBUTORA Farm on Every Floor By DICKSON D. DESPOMMIER IF climate change and population growth progress at their current pace, in roughly 50 years farming as we know it will no longer exist. This means that the majority of people could soon be without enough food or water. But there is a solution [...]
ClimateWire: How the World Bank Let ‘Deal Making’ Torch the Rainforests
Posted: August 19, 2009 by treylord in Climate Change, Deforestation, IFC, Indonesia, NYtimesBeen working on this stuff for the past few weeks. NYtimes: The World Bank ignored its own environmental and social protection standards when it approved nearly $200 million in loan guarantees for palm oil production in Indonesia, a stinging internal audit has found. The report, detailing five years of funding from the International Finance Corp. [...]
