Category: The Transition

Learning for Pleasure

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Here’s a unique report of a lifestyle aspect that enhances our quality-of-life experience, a true part of Sustainable Living.  I found this report personally satisfying because I have two Bachelor degrees, a Masters degree, and a Doctor of Philosophy. When I relocated from Washington to southeast Virginia, to develop the Garden Atrium net zero sustainable community, I discovered I could take courses, with no tuition fee, at any state university.

It was an opportunity to take courses that were never in my major, but seemed intriguing.… Keep reading

Statewide and Regional PV Mandates

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This Blog comes from several sources, all focused on one trend, the transition from fossil fuels to solar power.  The forecast for such a transition was made decades ago; now it’s happening.

Entire countries, such as the U.S. or Great Britain, seem slower to respond, perhaps due to their greater diversity of interests. But it’s a clear – and positive – growing trend that will help eliminate the climate crisis and the increasing numbers of destructive climate-based events.

This transition will also increase power reliability, as the sun comes up every day.… Keep reading

Tsunami alerts after Russian earthquake

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Here’s some good news and bad news.  The bad, of course, is the increasing frequency and severity of destructive climactic events. These were forecast several decades ago, but our governing institutions are simply proving to be unable to respond in a timely way. Partly that’s due to conflicting opinions as to the likelihood of the forecast, And, partly that’s due to our natural resistance to having to change from the comfort of our current lifestyle.

The good news: the reality of the forecasts seems to finally be setting in.… Keep reading

Ready for a new blog format this week?

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As you may know by now, I’m trying to cause widespread change to what I now see as true Sustainable Living. I define that as (1) living 100% with what Earth provides – which I can tell you, from experience, isn’t actually all that difficult to do, and do less expensively – and (2) enjoying as rewarding and enriching a quality-of-life experience as possible.

But – people I know, who know our net zero development, and with whom I’ve worked, will consistently buy a non-sustainable house and drive a gas-powered car … because … that what most folks do.… Keep reading

Fossil Fuel Burning Made April Storms Lethal

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Climate scientists, using cause/effect measurements now provide a direct link between fossil fuel burning, global warming, climate change, and the disastrous weather-based events we now see reported regularly. And with FEMA – which was created to deal with such events – being phased out, the affected areas will bear the aftermath – which often resembles pictures we see of 3rd world war-torn areas – for years. Comments afterwards.

 

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April storms that killed 24 in US made more

severe by burning fossil fuels – study

 

Study finds human-caused climate change made four-day

rainfall across central Mississippi valley 40% more likely

 

Nina Lakhani Climate justice reporter

TheGuardian

8 May 2025

 

The four-day historic storm that caused death and destruction across the central Mississippi valley in early April was made significantly more likely and more severe by burning fossil fuels, rapid analysis by a coalition of leading climate scientists has found.… Keep reading