July 2006 Archives

[Abby Bardi writes a column, Sin of the Month , for the Takoma Voice and Silver Spring Voice. In her August 2006 column, she addresses rising temperatures.]

“What’s 37 Celsius?” Hortense’s instant message asked.

These are some of the links that I have gathered to sustainability resources. In a future entry, I will explore these links more thoroughly. If you know of some other good sources of information, please let me know. I'd also be interested in hearing from readers about the merits or blindspots in the ideas that you come across on these sites or elsewhere. (Follow the jump for more links.)

--Eric Bond

www.climatecrisis.net

This is a guest entry from Anne Havemann from the The Chesapeake Climate Action Network .

In 34 years, my parents have never remembered their wedding anniversary. This year, however, as the rained pounded their roof and flooded their basement, they couldn't help but remember their honeymoon.

The 7.09 inches of rain recorded at D.C.'s National Airport during a 24-hour period ending Monday, June 26 is second only to when Hurricane Agnes passed through this region trapping my parents in their honeymoon suite 34 years ago.

Like many readers, I recently accompanied my family to the Silver Theatre to see An Inconvenient Truth, the new documentary that is more or less a film of Al Gore’s slide show on Global Warming. Any one of those elements—documentary, slide show, global warming, Al Gore—is probably enough to send most movie-goers to escapist fare like Superman Returns instead. But the reality that Gore presents was engaging enough to maintain the interest of my 12 year old daughter and her 17 year old cousin. We would do well to see that this film is shown in science classes across the country in the next school year.