1. AUGUST 16, 3 PM ET: Jonathan Meiburg's first book: A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life of the World’s Smartest Bird of Prey.

“If you were a fish, you wouldn’t want somebody dumping garbage into your home. Every fish is fancy in one way or another. There is something fancy about every creature in the world. Each person, each fish, each animal, each bird, each living creature.”

"The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured." - Hildegard of Bingen

FaCT Newsletter May 6 2025

FaCT Newsletter for June 2025

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Hildegard of Bingen: "The Earth is at the same time mother, She is mother of all that is natural, Mother of all that is human, She is mother of all, for contained in her are the seeds of all."

“...our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contraction in humanity’s use of resources; what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion. Only one of these sets of rules can be changed, and it’s not the laws of nature.” Naomi Klein

3. Ståle Holgersen, Distinguished Speaker for October 18 @ 2 PM ET

2. September 10: SUPPLY SHOCK - Economic Growth at the Crossroads and the Steady State Solution

Ohio opens more state land for fracking, then police officer physically prevents a reporter from asking questions

Sustainable Living: 5 Simple Actions

On Boycotts and General Strikes as Resistance

What can we do to live more sustainably?

May 17, 3 PM ET via Zoom: Katie Surma - Inside Climate News. Katie Surma is a reporter at Inside Climate News focusing on human rights and the environment, and the rights of nature movement. Before joining ICN, she practiced law, specializing in commercial litigation. She also wrote for a number of publications and her stories have appeared in the Washington Post, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times and The Associated Press, among others.

Save Ohio Parks - Thank you for posting and supporting the moratorium on all bids, nominations and leases to frack under Ohio's state parks and public lands.

Randy's Rants #44: The New Redemption

Carbon Capture is Not a Climate Solution - Dr. Randi Pokladnik

Randy’s Rants #42 Midterm Hallucinations

Put a Label on Gas !

Distinguished Speakers at a Glance & Register

Aerobic Composting and Climate Change

American Federation of Government Employees

Nature is not something for human beings to use and exploit as they see fit, solely for their own interests. Both nature and humanity are and whole of the life of the universe. Nature and humanity are one. . . . To destroy the natural world is to destroy human life. - The Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra

Kevin Anderson from "Climate Uncensored"

Is the halted effort to put wind turbines in Lake Erie being revived?

Oil and Gas Brine in Ohio

Statehouse Symposium - March 6, 2025 - Buckeye Environmental Network

Climate Uncensored: Professor Kevin Anderson - March 1 at 3pm

Cleveland International Film Festival Community Partner - Out of Plain Sight - Monday, March 31 at 5:10

Statement from FaCT Condemning ICE Raids as it appeared in the Plain Dealer 2-21-25

FaCT Signs on to Plea to Governor to Halt Drilling Under Parks

Feb. 18, 8 PM ET: Professor Oday Salim - Environmental Justice and Law - Get Informed and Get in the Fight

Statehouse Symposium: Buckeye Environmental Network

Where the Wild Things Were: Addressing the Disappearance of Wild Nature. Post Carbon Institute.

FaCT Legislative Committee Updates

Get Informed & Get in the Fight - Dist. Speaker 2-18-25

Islam and Environmental Stewardship

Jewish Teaching on the Environment

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. - St. Francis of Assisi

‘Drill baby, drill’? Not So Fast

We Need to Get Radical -- Together!

2024 End of Year Campaign a Success!

Ohio Well Pad Fire Highlights Pattern of Frequent Oil and Gas Incidents Statewide

Fixing Ohio's Farms

Randy’s Rant #36: The Coming War on American Environmentalism

“Drill, Baby, Drill” is Still the Wrong Mantra

Save Ohio Parks - Statement on explosion of Gulfport Appalachia fracking well pad near Salt Fork State Park

Top Ohio Republicans quietly crafting a new plan for ‘more energy creation’

Save Ohio Parks - No Fracking on Public Lands

The E.P.A. Promotes Toxic Fertilizer. 3M Told It of Risks Years Ago.

How to Repair the Planet? One Answer Might Be Hiding in Plain Sight.

Big Oil's Dirty Secret

Dr. Ted Auch, FaCT President: The Use of Data in Evaluating Social Justice

Some Inconvenient Truths About the “Clean Hydrogen Hub Project in Canton”

Tragedy of the Commons: Fracking in Ohio

A Victory in Athens County: Years of Protest and Activism Pay Off

Far Ranging Impacts of East Palestine Train Derailment

White House Strategy for Plastic Pollution

How America’s “Most Powerful Lobby” Is Stifling Efforts to Reform Oil Well Cleanup in State After State

Jennifer Ackerman, author of "What an Owl Knows"

What Can We Learn from Dark Waters?

Justin Nobel: "Petroleum 238: Big Oil's Dirty Secrets", Episode 7

Justin Nobel: "Petroleum 238: Big Oil's Dirty Secrets"

Dr. Donald Wuebbles: "Climate Change and the Great Lakes"

Critics see conflict of interest in East Palestine train derailment cleanup

Dennis Drabelle and "The Power of Scenery", Episode 6

Cleveland Power of Wind Action Team Update

You helped us OVER THE TOP of our 2023 Annual Fund Goal!

Democracy Denied: Oil and Gas Land Management Commission

Carbon Capture Technology

False Solutions: Geoengineering

Carbon Capture and Storage in Wayne National Forest

Dennis Drabelle author of "The Power of Scenery"

Doug Tallamy author of "The Nature of Oaks: the Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees"

Yvonka Hall, Executive Director of NEO Black Health Coalition

Erik Rutkow, author of "American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation"

Peter Shulman author of "Coal and Empire"

Scott Weidensaul author of "A World on the Wing: The global Odyssey of Migratory Birds"

Michelle Nijhuis and "Beloved Beasts" - Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction, Episode 5

Escaping the Norfolk Southern Death Zone in East Palestine, Episode 3

Dr. Bob Miller and The Norfolk Southern East Palestine Train Derailment Catastrophe, Episode 2

The Trains Don’t Always Run on Time: Yet the System Keeps Rolling, and We’re Just Collateral Damage

Dr. Bathsheba Demuth and "Floating Coast, an Environmental History of the Bering Strait", Episode 1

Dr. Bathsheba Demuth and "Floating Coast, an Environmental History of the Bering Strait"

Metts and Finley-Brook discuss their book “Climate Crisis Energy Violence: Mapping Energy’s Enduring Grasp on a Vulnerable Future”, Episode 4

Community-based participatory research for low-cost air pollution monitoring in the wake of unconventional oil and gas development in the Ohio River Valley: Empowering impacted residents through community science

The Truth about Polystyrene

Tom Haines discusses his book "Walking to the Sun"

Ross MacPhee discusses his book "End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World’s Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals"

Why Gardening With Native Plants Matters

Lights Out Cleveland

Climate Change Regulations Face Challenges

Michael Bogard discusses his book "End of Night"

The Fracking Frontier in the United States: A Case Study of Foreign Investment, Civil Liberties and Land Ethics in the Shale Industry

Michael Fitzgerald discusses the "Fracking War"

Dr. Yuri Gorby: "Radionuclides in Our Environment"

Proposed Pipelines and Environmental Justice: Exploring the Association between Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Pipeline Proposals in the United States*

Incineration isn’t a solution to our waste problems

Energy Security, International Investment, and Democracy: The Case of the United States Shale Oil and Gas Industry

The Human Right to Water and Unconventional Energy

Fracked gas is NOT a bridge Fuel or Green Energy

Data inconsistencies from states with unconventional oil and gas activity

House Bill 15: Ohio's Energy Generation Policy

HB197 - Community Owned Solar - Call to Action

Who Will Protect Our Public Lands?

"When we speak of things not as natural resources or commodities, but as gifts, our whole relationship to the natural world changes. Receiving a gift from the land is coupled to attached responsibliites of sharing, respect, reciprocity, and gratitude..." Robin Wall Kimmerer

A Tribute to Pope Francis from American columnist E J Dionne of the Washington Post

Randy's Rants #47: Rape, Loot, Pillage goes Green

FaCT Newsletter April 4 2025

FaCT Newsletter March 22, 2025

FaCT Newsletter February 28 2025

In Memoriam: Pope Francis, who embraced faith and science, the author of the profound encyclical Laudato Si.

The good, the bad, and the ugly on Ohio’s long overdue energy legislation