A school for doing sex well has opened in — of all places — Kyrgyzstan.

The "luckwarmers" accept that humans are causing global heating, but want to bet civilization's future on the chance that it won't be as bad as it appears.

It is a mistake to compare these postures with personal grief. These people are not acting out of a sense of loss. The loss has not yet occurred, although climate scientists tell us that it will. These are not stages in grief, they are stages in a campaign of persuasion that abandons an untenable position to take the next line that will justify the conclusion it wants.

The US must convert its decaying suburbs into more like the newly desirable cities.

The Emerging Populist Agenda (in the US).

The City of Portland has killed a fracked gas export terminal.

They will look for other places to put it, and other terminals are planned.