Tag: climate science
Coloradoan Can Do Better on Reporting Climate Crisis’ Link to Wildfires
Published in the Fort Collins Coloradoan on January 1, 2021 Most, if not all of the Coloradoan’s articles on Colorado’s record-setting 2020 wildfire season earlier this year failed to mention the relationship between wildfire and…
PRPA Should Not Build a Gas-Fired Power Plant
Published in the Fort Collins Coloradoan on September 19, 2020 The recent collapse of our economy and routine activities is the result of a microscopic coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Without warning the entire human population…
Linking Climate Protection and Peace
Speech delivered by Kevin Cross at the Fort Collins Peace Festival on September 28, 2019 The Fort Collins Sustainability Group/FCSG was formed back in 2005. We’ve spend the last 14 years focusing on climate action…
Healthy, Sustainable Communities and a Livable Planet
(For March 6, 2018 Colorado Precinct Caucus Platforms) Prepared by the Fort Collins Sustainability Group Fort Collins Community Action Network P.O. Box 400 Fort Collins, CO 80522 Ph. 970-419-8944 http://fcsg.fccan.org Platform Elements: 1. Accelerate a…
Open Letter to NOAA, EPA Scientists
Published in the Fort Collins Coloradoan on April 14, 2017 On Earth Day, April 22, there will be a March for Science nationwide and in Fort Collins, followed by a national People’s Climate March on…
FCSG Questions City Council Candidates on CAP
Candidates were asked to respond with “Yes” “No” or “Neutral” to each of nine questions concerning the Fort Collins Climate Action Plan. Those responses are shown in the grids below for Mayoral Candidates, District 1…
Our Government is Failing Us on Global Climate Change
Published in NMPolitics.net on February 6, 2017 COMMENTARY: Ten years ago I wrote an op-ed titled “The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change.” Unfortunately, this op-ed can be republished today without modification. To look…
FCSG Statement on Climate Mayors’ Letter
Statement updated on January 19, 2017 The Fort Collins City Council voted 5-2 on January 17th to “endorse and support” the Climate Mayor’s letter. Mayor Wade Troxell became the 66th U.S. mayor to sign the…
FCSG Comments on Greenhouse Gas Impacts of the Northern Integrated Supply Project
Statement posted on July 22, 2015 The Fort Collins Sustainability Group (FCSG) has determined that climate change emissions from the Northern Integrated Supply Project (NISP) would derive from four sources: 1) construction of the project,…