Interview: Mark Hertsgaard Assesses SF Global Climate Action Summit
Environmental reporter Mark Hertsgaard talks about what was discussed and what got accomplished at the recent Global Climate Summit in San Francisco.
Environmental reporter Mark Hertsgaard talks about what was discussed and what got accomplished at the recent Global Climate Summit in San Francisco.
The Global Climate Action Summit, coming up next September in San Francisco, is the brainchild of California’s 79-year-old outgoing governor Jerry Brown, one of the country’s great crusaders for cutting carbon emissions despite lack of federal interest in solving the climate crisis.
Though President Trump has withdrawn the U.S. from the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, this is no time for the 70 percent of Americans who believe climate change is happening to recoil in defeat.
EarthTalk’s Chelsea Tyler contributes this travelogue about a recent trip backpacking through the wilds of Yosemite National Park… Monday, September 21, 2015 Sea Level, 7:36 a.m. Los Angeles, California I ran until I reached the edge of the shore. As I stepped into the water, I celebrated what was my first time touching the Pacific Ocean. […]