Climate Corner: The right path forward
Feb 8, 2025 Eric Engle editorial@newsandsentinel.com An AP newswire piece in the Parkersburg News and Sentinel last weekend contained a section that jumped out at me. The piece read, in part, “…a Chinese upstart, DeepSeek, said it developed… Read More
Climate Corner: Jimmy Carter – visionary
Feb 1, 2025 Vic Elam editorial@newsandsentinel.com Recently deceased former President Jimmy Carter grew up close to the land, hunting, fishing, and farming his family’s property near Plains, Ga. From those experiences Carter developed an ethic of environmental stewardship… Read More
Climate Corner: Having it both ways – a cleaner environment and economic growth
Jan 25, 2025 George Banziger editorial@newsandsentinel.com It’s a frequently held assumption, often promoted by fossil-fuel interests, that in order to pursue a cleaner environment, we need to make sacrifices for economic development. Nothing could be further from the… Read More
Climate Corner: The Ohio Valley has a radiation problem
Jan 18, 2025 Randi Pokladnik editorial@newsandsentinel.com During the 60s, I remember the government conducted Civil Defense drills in my school. We were told to climb under our school desks, duck down, and cover our heads. We might have… Read More
Climate Corner: Cost, convenience and conservation
Nov 2, 2024 Dean Banziger editorial@newsandsentinel.com I like to consider myself a conservationist, or in other words, concerned about our environment and limited resources. However, if I am honest with myself, it is not always a top priority…. Read More
Climate Corner: Driving a used EV by the numbers
Jan 11, 2025 Jonathan Brier climatecorner@brierjon.com In April 2024 I wrote “How my life changed driving a used EV.” It was just over 12 months ago I purchased a used Hyundai Kona Electric with 20,202 miles. A couple… Read More
Climate Corner: Dollars and (common) sense
Jan 4, 2025 Griffin Bradley editorial@newsandsentinel.com With the 2024 elections behind us and a second Trump administration preparing to take control in a few short weeks, I find it to be a time of reflection on the last… Read More
Climate Corner: A Challenge and an Opportunity
Dec 28, 2024 Rebecca Phillips editorial@newsandsentinel.com 2024 has been a year of climate-related disasters. On Dec. 19, Reuters published one photo from each of the countries mentioned in its coverage this year: of the 125 countries, 22, or… Read More
Climate Corner: The solstice and our fragile balance
Dec 21, 2024 Jean Ambrose editorial@newsandsentinel.com This morning at 4:21 a.m., as most of us in West Virginia were still in bed, the Earth paused. Today marks the winter solstice — the shortest day and longest night of… Read More
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Climate Corner: Tough times in Margaritaville
Feb 15, 2025 Linda Eve Seth editorial@newsandsentinel.com National Margarita Day – Feb. 22, 2025 If you are planning to celebrate National Margarita Day on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, here is something to think about as you make your… Read More