Climate protection

Our transition from fossil fuels continues. Every three months, I report here how the transition is going. With recent events at the federal level, I was reluctant to look at…

Electric vehicles will be a big part of stopping global warming, but you don’t have to buy an EV. We will stop global warming by stopping burning fossil fuels: gasoline,…

There is a lot of bad news these days. Here is some good news. Oil drilling is down No one bid at the auction for companies to buy rights to…

In November, the Duwamish Longhouse held what is called a “climate café,” a get-together to talk about climate change. The Duwamish Longhouse climate café aimed to inspire action. Another kind…

If you were around at the end of 1995, you were here when U.S. gas stations sold their last gallon of leaded gas. From the 1920s to the 1970s, almost…

This election, Washington state chose to keep our Climate Commitment Act.  That keeps us on track to stop most of our greenhouse gas pollution by 2050. I’m grateful. Countries around…

Phoenix Arizona has had temperatures over 100°F for 106 straight days. The Alaskan snow crab fishery collapsed in 2022. It has gotten too hot for Koreans to farm the cabbage…

The weekend before last, I was at the Edmonds Museum Summer Market talking about EV charging stations.  Almost everyone who wants to talk about charging stations at the market wants…

Map courtesy Clean and Prosperous Institute. This fall, when you get your ballot in October, you will get to vote on who will be the President of the United States….

I recently spoke at a meeting about burning fossil fuels and how they release greenhouse gases that overheat the planet. When we got to audience questions, the last question turned…

In January through March this year, Edmonds, Lynnwood and Mountlake Terrace residents bought a little over 200 new electric vehicles.  EVs were 19% of the new cars and trucks bought…

Friends have been telling me these great ideas for how to stop global overheating pollution.  One idea is to feed seaweed to cows.  It sounds weird, but, as my friend…

This month a mega-wildfire is burning through Texas, burning something like 500 homes and farms, thousands of livestock, mostly cattle; and the hay that surviving cattle would have eaten over…

I got nice news from my son last week.  I was explaining that we’re headed towards electric cars and no more natural gas by about 2050.  He pointed out that…

I am renting an electric car in Philadelphia.  I flew east to see family, and this electric car rental is an adventure for me.  Charging my car is usually something…

We’ve been having clear blue skies and crisp frosty mornings for over a week, and then Friday night, we got heavy rain – about a half inch. By Sunday, we…

Mountlake Terrace, Lynnwood and Edmonds and are getting serious about electric vehicles. In the third quarter of 2023 (July-September) 25% of purchases of new cars and trucks registered in Mountlake…

In a March 2023 Pew Research Center survey, almost half of Americans said they felt that they were doing “too little to help reduce the effects of global climate change.”…

Last weekend, I bumped into a friend sitting in the shade enjoying the scene of parents and strollers, bags of goodies from the Edmonds farmers’ market, people lining up at…

I get this startling thing a lot: People tell me, “It’s wonderful to see how hopeful you are about people dealing with climate change.”  Imagine you were heading home from…

Nick Maxwell Introducing Climate Protection, a new monthly column from Nick Maxwell A friend of mine just got an electric car, a used Nissan Leaf. Nissan Leafs do not cost…