Posts Tagged “Climate Change”
Carpooling is an inherently good idea. If you don’t have access to a car, it’s easy to use Amovens to find someone you can pay to drive you to your destination. If you do have a car, you can find a passenger who will pay YOU to go where you were going to go anyway, [...]
The United States has experienced a new wave of environmental awareness since the turn of the century. Whether that’s due to Al Gore’s documentary, the increasingly obvious effects of global warming, or some other reason, it is clear that Americans want to see their country moving in a greener direction. One way this is being manifested [...]
Fans of archaeology are familiar with the concept known as the Bronze Age Collapse. For those of you who don’t spend your holidays in the library or excavation sites, the Bronze Age Collapse refers to a period of massive transition among most, if not all, Mediterranean and Near East Societies starting around 1200 BCE. The [...]
Amovens is fortunate to have former Costa Rican President José-Maria Figueres as one of our co-founders. In addition to the experience he brings to the company as a former head of state, President Figueres is one of the world’s leading thinkers on climate change and sustainability and was recently named president of the Carbon War Room. [...]
Word on the street (and by street, I mean almost every climate change scientist and environmental newspaper on the planet including Scientific American, NPR, and the Guardian) lately is that climate change may be irreversible. While that thought is undoubtedly scary, we here at Amovens remain optimistic about our global warming combat skills. Auden Schendler, [...]
Someone forwarded us a link to Earth Hour’s webpage today, which led us to this rather inspiring video: One hundred thirty five countries will be participating this year, with more than 5251 cities and towns. That’s 1.8 billion people. Shutting off the lights for an hour may not seem like a big gesture. In fact, [...]
For better or worse, I’ve become mildly addicted to Twitter. There’s something maddeningly compelling about watching the feed refresh itself every thirty seconds with yet another update on what somebody I don’t know just ate. Surely this is what the Internet (which I’ve been reliably informed consists of a series of tubes) was meant for. [...]
