My buddy Morgen Hartford is on the road (by bike) …

… on a memorial journey through the Pacific Northwest. Honoring old friends, creating new connections. Learning about the systems that power and shape the way we live.

Here he is with a broken spoke on his most recent 1200mi ride.

His excellent blog – A Wild and Sacred Day – documents the trip.

Two of his causes are healthy food and Climate Action.

My main source of information from Climate Change activists is the excellent audiocast Living on Earth, Steve Curwood’s news, features, interviews and commentary on a broad range of ecological issues.

Personally I’m a Climate Change agnostic having done almost no research on the topic aside from reading The Skeptical Environmentalist.

My friend Brian Mason has done exhaustive research concluding that there’s almost no evidence (yet) that man has significantly altered climate. … My gut tells me that’s probably true.

Even if it is, Climate Change activists are doing far more good than harm. Improving Life on Earth. Kudos!

What inspired this post? … I started reading this book, Ectopia (1975) …

The book is set in 1999 (25 years in the future, as seen from 1974) …

Ecotopia, a newly formed country that broke from the USA in 1980. … The new nation of Ecotopia consists of Northern California, Oregon and Washington; it is hinted that Southern California is a lost cause. …

Though the book was a serious vision of ecologists in 1975, it reads as a most hilarious parody in 2010. Funny because the author didn’t intend it to be funny.

Cars are banned. Farms are run by collectives. Women run the government. They enjoy a 20hr work week. And marijuana.

Who today could believe that California would legalize marijuana?

… The link above is an Economist audiocast of Roger Salazar of Public Safety First and Ethan Nadelmann of the Drug Policy Alliance debating California’s proposition 19, by far the best analysis of the issue I’ve ever seen.