by Chris Nava, VP for Political Action 350.org,  a climate change movement that is global, bold, creative and massive  is behind the worldwide September 24th  ‘Moving Planet’ event.  Co-founder Bill McKibben, who wrote the first book about global warming for the general public and university friends, has in a short time put together an impressive [...]

EDC members and friends received a quick overview of the challenges facing humankind at the August 13 Club meeting. UCSD Professor Milton Saier discussed “Our Precarious Earth and its Biosphere: Global Warming and its Primary Cause,” which is overpopulation. In a fast-paced and wide-ranging presentation supplemented with numerous visuals, Saier began with the classic story [...]

by Margaret McCown Liles When my Great-grandfather was born in 1812, the world’s population had just surpassed the one billion mark. When my Grandfather was born in 1855, the population had reached 1.3 billion. When my father was born in 1905, it was 1.7 billion. When my brother was born in 1955, the population had [...]

What started as an environmental teach-in held in 1970 and aimed only at the United States has become a global observance. Earth Day is now celebrated in more than 175 nations and too many communities to count. April 22 of each year is now a day for each of us to pause and consider how [...]

All troops needed on the ground in the fight for the soul of the Democratic Party. At the core of what is going on politically in Wisconsin, and increasingly in our nation’s capitol and though out our country, the struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party.  Democrats cannot afford to stand by passively and [...]

by Francine Busby For so many of us who worked to get Obama elected, it is difficult to watch his enemies tearing at all his programs and initiatives and creating divsiveness and hatred at every turn. This article from the New Yorker is a must read because it explains the billions of dollars that have [...]

On Saturday at 11 am, tens of thousands of people are getting together at beaches across the country for a massive even called “Hands Across the Sand.” We’ll join hands on the beach, making a literal “line in the sand” to say No to new offshore drilling and Yes to clean energy. When: Saturday June [...]

The Army Corps of Engineers held a public hearing on the proposed Gregory Canyon Landfill June 3 at the San Marcos Senior Center. The Corps is preparing an environmental impact report on the project. Several hundred people attended. Everyone who spoke was opposed to the project. Coverage of the meeting in the North County Times. [...]