Category Archives: Environment

Photo: Environment Missouri

Press release from Environment Missouri:

St. Louis, MO– Yesterday evening, Environment Missouri hosted the St. Louis Renewable Energy Summit. The event welcomed panelists Jack Cardetti-  political consultant for Clean Line Energy Partners, Dr. Allison Miller- professor at Saint Louis University and research associate at the Missouri Botanical Gardens, David Crossley- Professor of geophysics at Saint Louis University, and Fredrick Doss-  Legislative Assistant to Representative Michael Butler, to discuss global warming, its impacts in Missouri, and the role of renewable energy in creating a sustainable future.

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Climate activist, transportation activist, and environmental health professor gather in front of City Hall to release a new report on carbon-free transportation. (from left to right: Marrielle Brown, Roger R. Lewis, Jose Carmona, and Taylor Hale)

Environment Missouri has some ideas about helping transportation be carbon-free. Matter of fact, they have 50 of them.

In a recent news release, Environment Missouri shared how it is taking their ideas straight to St. Louis City Hall. This week, the group released the report in front of the local government building with Marielle Brown of Trailnet and Roger Lewis of Saint Louis University speaking at the event.

Find out more about the 50 step plan below.

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Photo Courtesy Webster-Kirkwood Times.

On the morning of Sept. 2, some Times readers reported that they felt an earthquake. They did, indeed. My sister in Kansas City said almost all of her friends felt it in Cow Town.

St. Louis and KC may be in for more shake, rattle and rolling due to man-made earthquakes. Scientists at a recent Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) conference noted that gas drillers in rural Oklahoma are the culprits for the quaking.

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Photo courtesy MDC.

The Gospel of Matthew notes that what we do for the least of our living brethren, we do for the Lord. The very least of our earthly companions tend to be four-legged and six-legged – and we are not doing right by them.

Consider the spate of bills introduced in this past session of the state legislature, which were designed to repeal or weaken the Canine Cruelty Prevention Act. And our pet dogs are supposed to be our best friends!

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Photo by Diana Linsley, Webster-Kirkwood Times.

Carl Campbell, retired petroleum investment advisor, spends every morning searching for climate and environmental information.  By early afternoon, he releases an analysis on his most important finds in a daily newsletter called “Carl’s Climate Letters.”

Carl’s analysis for a Reuters article entitled “Pope urges Christians to save the planet from ‘debris, desolation and filth.‘”

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