Monthly Archives: October 2013

Power Shift Conference Produces Great Results

Pittsburgh used to be one of the dirtiest cities in the world. With its coal-burning steel plants and petroleum refineries, the air in Pittsburgh was so dirty the street lights often ran during the day! Now, Pittsburgh is changing its reputation. A city once dominated by fossil fuels is now among the leaders in green technologies. Companies formerly dependent on mining and burning coal for energy are now switching to wind and solar power. They still have a way to go, but the results, both Continue reading →

LA Times Gets It Right

Dear Climate March Friends, The mainstream media is beginning to come to its senses. After years of practicing the belief that “both sides need to be heard,” the Los Angeles Times announced that it would no longer publish letters from climate-change deniers. In a piece titled, “On letters from climate-change deniers” (October 8, 2013), Times’ Letters Editor Paul Thornton explains, “The debate right now isn’t whether this evidence exists (clearly, it does) but what this evidence means for us.” He also states, “Simply put, I Continue reading →

Maybe Pope Francis Will March

Dear Climate March Friends, Thanks to all of you who have been helping get the word out about the Climate March. The national media is still warming up to us, but the March and our marchers have received some excellent coverage at the local level and online recently, including this much-appreciated mention by Ted Glick in Grist. Check out our website for other stories. For those of you able to tune-in today online (12:30 p.m. central time), my talk show, The Fallon Forum, digs into Continue reading →

IPCC Report Reaffirms Need for Action

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued its long awaited AR5 report with a consensus on upping its level of confidence to over 95% that climate change is a manmade issue. “That statistic is a huge reason why we are mobilizing to march next year,” said Dave Murphy, Communications Director for The Great March for Climate Action. Ed Fallon, a talk show host and former Iowa lawmaker who founded and directs the March said, “Climate change is not the prevailing issue confronting our society, Continue reading →

March Goes International

“Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” While historically famous, perhaps this quote is just that – historical. The summation of individual human activity has transcended municipalities and nations, to cause unequaled, and often egregious, ramifications on our world. Contemporarily, we are collectively capable of physically altering the very environment we have inhabited for thousands of years. There is no longer such thing as “the middle of nowhere.” Everyone, everywhere, affects and is affected Continue reading →