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I am taking a hiatus from my “What Can I Do Series.” This blog will focus on three stories in the press in the past few months that have been flaring up. They have been smoldering for years and I expect they will smolder for a few more years.

As background, more than a year ago I wrote a piece entitled Form of Argument: Adventures in Rhetoric. In that blog I named a number ...<br /><a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/RickyRood/comment.html?entrynum=264">Read More</a>]]> Thu, 16 May 2013 05:55:00 GMT http://www.wunderground.com/blog/RickyRood/comment.html?entrynum=263 http://www.wunderground.com/blog/RickyRood/comment.html?entrynum=263
This is the continuation of a series in response to the question, “What can I do about climate change?” Links to the previous entries are listed at the end.

Last week rather than taking the conventional view of looking at greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, I presented an accounting of the emissions associated with agriculture. My primary points were that agriculture was a m...<br /><a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/RickyRood/comment.html?entrynum=263">Read More</a>]]> Thu, 9 May 2013 05:18:00 GMT http://www.wunderground.com/blog/RickyRood/comment.html?entrynum=262 http://www.wunderground.com/blog/RickyRood/comment.html?entrynum=262
Revised: May 9, 2013

This is the continuation of a series in response to the question, “What can I do about climate change?” Links to the previous entries are listed at the end.

Last week I made a list of categories to classify the types of actions that we can take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The second item on that list is food. But first, I want to start with some more sets of c...<br /><a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/RickyRood/comment.html?entrynum=262">Read More</a>]]> Tue, 30 Apr 2013 03:38:00 GMT http://www.wunderground.com/blog/RickyRood/comment.html?entrynum=261 http://www.wunderground.com/blog/RickyRood/comment.html?entrynum=261
This is the continuation of a series in response to the question, “What can I do about climate change?” Links to the previous entries are listed at the end.

So far, I have introduced the common, easy answer: to be more efficient in the use of energy. I listed the places where we can improve efficiency and in short order reduce expense: insulation improvements in building, fuel efficiency in transportat...<br /><a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/RickyRood/comment.html?entrynum=261">Read More</a>]]> Sun, 21 Apr 2013 18:40:00 GMT http://www.wunderground.com/blog/RickyRood/comment.html?entrynum=260 http://www.wunderground.com/blog/RickyRood/comment.html?entrynum=260
This is the continuation of a series in response to the question, “What can I do about climate change?” I thank Doug Glancy who helped me out last week with a blog Smoking, Marriage and Climate, which discussed the role of peer pressure and social networking to organize and develop a growing movement. These are ideas I will come back to later in the series.

In the first entr...<br /><a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/RickyRood/comment.html?entrynum=260">Read More</a>]]> Wed, 10 Apr 2013 02:33:00 GMT