Climate Change and Renewable Energy – Our Scenarios

Session 2: Where we stand:
Renewable energy and fossil fuels in context

How do we fit in: Owning and integrating climate realities

Sunday, February 9, 2014, 11:00 a.m.
425 S. Central Park Blvd.

If you missed Session 1, you are still welcome to join the class. We will look at renewable energy and fossil fuels in context and integrate earth’s realities into our hearts, minds, psyches, lives and relationships. The videos and articles below are for your consideration. They are not required for participation in the class. Don’t get too deep in Section B (Renewable energy and fossil fuels in context) without also looking at Section C to till some of your interior soil. See you Sunday at 11:00!

-Duane

Resources

B. Renewable energy and fossil fuels in context

GRAPHICS & VIDEOS	ARTICLES
Carbon
Infographic: US Carbon Extraction 1950-2011 Infographic: How many gigatons of CO2? The Intersection Between Hydraulic Fracturing and Climate Change (Anthony Ingraffea) (23:32) Enbridge Energy 2010 tar sands oil spill into the Kalamazoo River (8:51)	U.S. Methane Study Says Emissions 50 Percent Higher Than EPA Estimates Coal Displacing Natural Gas … Already Do more to cut power usage, ICC directs ComEd
	Editorials on Keystone XL: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: President Barack Obama should approve Keystone XL Pipeline New York Times: When to Say No Tar Sands Opinion: U.S. shouldn't be enabling a destructive industry
Renewables
Graphic & article: Cost Of PV Cells Has Dropped 99% Since 1977, Bringing Solar Energy To Grid Parity Hans Rosling – 200 years of climate change – includes wealth disparity, population trends, plateau, little renewable (upshot: The U.S. is the low hanging fruit of addressing climate change) (5:51 - 19:00) APS utility fighting solar energy (2:45) Elon Musk: Thoughts on transitioning to 100% renewable energy (4:20) Actresses Unite in Support of Replacing Nukes With Clean Energy (0:43)	7 Reasons to Celebrate 2013′s Renewable Energy Achievements Explosive growth predicted for Solar PV industry in 2014 Census shows another year of double-digit solar job growth Groups Debunk Myths About Wind Power’s Impact on Wildlife China Installed More Solar Projects in 2013 Than Any Country In Any Year
Economic structural contributions to climate
Beehive Collective: Mesoamerica Resiste (8:04) How might this form of collaboration influence decisions about climate change and renewable energy development? Sacred Economics (Charles Eisenstein) (12:08)	Capitalism is the problem, economic democracy the solution Equality and Global Warming: Equality squelches wasteful resource competition and lends to global warming countermeasures public support and a sense of common cause. 'Sleepwalking to Extinction': Capitalism and the Destruction of Life and Earth (Capitalism as climate change motor (long))

C. How do we fit in (owning and integrating earth realities into our lives)

VIDEOS

ARTICLES

Facing Ourselves: The Climate Challenge Needs a New Kind of Bravery (4:04) Grandpa's conversation with granddaughter (5:54) Planetize the Movement (Drew Dellinger poem based on MLK quote) (2:34) A New Way To Think About Stress (14:29) (4:20–7:30 for the heart of the message; keep going for the social aspect) Comfort Zone trailer. Rochester residents ask themselves what to do with climate change. (1:37)

The (IN)Sanity of Climate Change Awake! A Psychology of Climate Change Parenting in an Age of Climate Change: Communicating the Tough Truths to Children The Six Stages of Climate Grief: The sixth stage is doing The Work Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene By ROY SCRANTON D. Ediger comment: About facing species and civilization death. How do we understand these things in relation to Christian hope and promises? What can we learn from the way Paul and the early church pointed believers to live in the face of imminent doom? How do you understand the author’s claim that “this civilization is already dead”? A writer’s transition in the age of tar sands (Margaret Swedish, 12/6/13) (follow-up post 1/8/14) Climate change is so serious, I’m no longer flying