Last week the House is voted on the Nutrition Reform and Work Opportunity Act, a food stamp bill that would cut $39 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program over the next 10 years. Although this is about a 5 p...
We need to do more than just stop, or turn around, global warming. Although doing that is possible, it’s also change that won’t happen overnight. Change that can happen a little more quickly is the change in archite...
Drafted on December 10, 1948, the UN Declaration of Human Rights holds the Guinness World Record for “Most Translated Document”. The six pages outlining the first global expression of over 30 inalienable human right...
The human impact of global warming is real. Changing climates aren’t something that will happen in five, 10, or 100 years from today. They are happening now, and ways of life that we’ve known for generations are dis...
How Global Warming Negatively Affects Your Health and Life Expectancy Over 400,000 people worldwide die every year from climate change. Most of those deaths are from hunger and communicable diseases, but this figure also includ...
Over 30 million displaced by weather-related events in 2012 Climate refugees aren’t a phenomenon of the future. It’s a catastrophe happening right now. Floods, storms and earthquakes forced 32.4 million people globa...
Global warming does more than change climates. It intensifies famine and droughts by shortening the rainy season and drying up lakes. This reduction in resources and livelihoods creates conflicts as people fight over fertile la...
Water is life, and it too is being threatened by global warming. The threat to water is much more than droughts and flooding, although it includes those problems also. The threat to water also means rising temperatures in the o...
In December 1996, November 21st was declared “World Television Day” by the United Nations General Assembly. The resolution was adopted with flying colors, but not without 11 abstentions from the vote. One of these a...