Tag Archives: climate change
List of Injustices – What Gets You In The Feels?
It’s been a tough year or two over here. Being a full time professor keeps me very busy and then a child was added to the mix. It’s always the same thing though, I get my courses set up, and … Continue reading
Heal Yourself To Heal The World
Every change of season is a reminder of the endless ebb and flow of our lives and to always expect the unexpected. This fall started with drastic changes around the world. Major flooding in SouthEast Asia affected over eight million … Continue reading
Watch “Before The Flood” Free Online Until Sunday November 6
Although there are current political leaders denouncing the existence of climate change and the impact our human activities have on the changing climate, science and public awareness moves forward. The best data to showcase the effect humans are having on … Continue reading
Year end wrap up for the environment and Dallas
Fifty weeks. Fifty articles. Roughly 32,000 words right here Along the Green Trail — all about the environment with a connection to Dallas. From the outside many don’t see the environmental strides our big Texas city has taken, but in … Continue reading
A confession and an early December article
Do you want the good news or bad news first? Good news: I just submitted grades for the Fall 2015 semester! Bad news: The last few weeks were really busy and I have two blogs to post. Ok, that’s not … Continue reading
The 2015 Halloween palm oil update
Candy time, otherwise known as Halloween, presents an opportunity to become aware of an international environmental issue that makes its way into our homes every day. With a wide variety of candy at your disposal this time of year, ingredient … Continue reading
Connect to Cool Climate Change – My TEDx Talk!
Oh my goodness… My TEDx talk is on YouTube! This has been a labor of love. Since the beginning of 2015 I have been working on this TEDx talk. Auditions were held in the Spring, in which you had to deliver … Continue reading
Climate Change forum, affiliated with COP21, held in Dallas
The Climate Extremes conference, affiliated with the upcoming COP21 Paris, the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, was held this past week in Dallas. In Dallas! Dallas is joining the worldwide conversation on climate change, and even City of Dallas … Continue reading
A week in Denmark
I had an amazing opportunity to explore Denmark just a few weeks ago. We packed a lot in to just a few days over seas. We explored Copenhagen, climbed the steps at Møns Klint, watched the sun set on the … Continue reading
The future is clean
The sun is back. Although we had a number of rain days here in Dallas, we receive, on average, over 230 days of sunlight per year. That’s not as high as our neighbors to the west, El Paso, with over … Continue reading