Back in June, I took my daughters to see the Al Gore film, An Inconvenient Truth, the day it opened in Tucson. The girls and I were riveted by the message that we need to act NOW to slow global warming. Even my 7-year-old understood that this was her future Gore was talking about, and [...]

It’s time to celebrate! We’re living in a new era for Tucson.
After many years of hard work on the part of so many people on so many sides of the issue, our community came together on Tuesday and said YES to a balanced, regional transportation plan that will revolutionize our transit system with dramatic increases [...]

Most of you know that the RTA regional transportation plan election is coming up on May 16. I and many other citizens from all different parts of the political spectrum have been working for the last three years to develop regional consensus. We finally have a plan that we can all support, and the endorsements [...]

Back last June, I took a rather lonely stand on this blog calling for the relocation of the Reid Park Zoo elephants to an elephant sanctuary in Tennessee where they could stand a chance of a longer, happier life among other freed elephants.
At the time, that was like taking a stand against Mom and [...]

Perhaps you noticed the opinion cover story in today’s Star on “an expert’s close analysis” showing that, contrary to decades of study to the contrary, suburban sprawl is good for us and should be encouraged.
Too bad Jim Kiser, who wrote this column, didn’t check out the background of his source: Robert Bruegmann, a professor [...]

UPDATE: Tucson Water Director Dave Modeer has publicly stated that Tucson Water has abandoned any efforts to directly deliver treated sewage to our taps, which in any case circumvents state law. Our concerns about treated sewage have changed our leaders’ minds. This issue should certainly in no way lead anyone to vote for the misguided [...]

I went to the Urban Heat Island workshop yesterday, which was very well attended (by city staff and members of the public alike) and had quite a few useful suggestions for how we all can do our own part to reduce global warming in our own backyard, and little tidbits like a list of trees [...]

It may seem a little funny to talk about the heat island effect right after our first freezing nights of the season, but summer will be arriving sooner than ever in the coming years, thanks to global warming. Besides, there is a heat island mitigation workshop in town next week, and it’s open to the [...]

This week, there is a conference going on in Denver hosted by the Association for the Study of Peak Oil, where industry experts are sharing information about how quickly we are all running out of oil, and what happens as this foundation of the world’s economy dramatically declines.
We at the People’s Policy Project have [...]