WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
Marble Falls Everyone everywhere talks about the weather, but in the current global heatwave it’s topic number one in many places. The number of reports about heat are rising faster than the numbers on most thermometers. The eight highest annual temperatures since records have been kept are in the last eight years, for …
Marble Falls The conundrum over the last several decades, as the reality of the impact of climate change has become impossible to ignore, is how do we create a just transition from the current economy to a cleaner, greener future? Talking to Rutgers Professor Todd Vachon on Wade’s World, he reminded me that …
New Orleans A bunch of scientists from a slew of top enviro-research institutes in the UK, US, Netherlands, Germany, and Brazil, who study climate for a living had a simple, but solid idea. Maybe we should measure how what countries are actually doing to reduce global warming lines up with what they are …