13 Nov, 2022
If humanity is to survive in the face of climate change, nuclear proliferation, and international political conflict, our best option is to adopt the mindset with which world leaders approached the enormous task of ensuring global peace following the horrors of World War II.
Putin’s on the ballot by Tom H. Hastings 478 words Really, everything’s on the ballot. We hear that reproductive rights...
28 Aug, 2022
In the White Mountains of New Hampshire, I recently joined a gathering of people highly concerned with a range of threats, from war to climate catastrophe and more.
29 Apr, 2022
We don’t need, indeed can’t tolerate, any more Earth Days during which we salve our consciences and then go back to a world that is grossly and unsustainably over-populated...
30 Oct, 2021
Just in time for the COP26 UN climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, the Biden administration has released the National Intelligence Estimate: Climate Change and International Responses Increasing Challenges to US National Security Through 2040...
2 Oct, 2021
Just in time for the COP26 UN climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, the Biden administration has released the National Intelligence Estimate: Climate Change and International Responses Increasing Challenges to US National Security Through 2040...
10 Sep, 2021
I vividly recall reading Bill McKibben’s prophetic work, The End of Nature, serialized in The New Yorker beginning 11 September 1989..
31 Aug, 2021
There is no serious doubt or debate: anthropogenic (human-effected) activities are driving more hurricanes than ever, more intense killer heat waves than ever in recorded meteorological history...
26 Aug, 2021
Reflect for a moment that Mt. Shasta, off the I-5 in Northern California, was described by John Muir in 1877 as: “Go where you will within a radius of from fifty to a hundred miles, there stands the colossal cone of Shasta...
11 Aug, 2021
Today, a child was born, tiny hands curling and unfurling with the startled shock of cool air on wet skin, oxygen flooding into newly-opened lungs as she cries upon entering this strange new world...
25 Jun, 2021
The temperature in my historically cool and temperate city, Portland OR, is projected to be a historic 114 degrees today.
17 Jun, 2021
The Biden administration has made some admirable moves and gestures toward addressing the immense challenges posed by climate-related migration.
14 May, 2021
Currently, the U.S. spends at least three quarters of a trillion dollars each year on the Pentagon...
10 Mar, 2021
A young Kansas grain farmer and I were riding on a train through Iowa when the subject of the climate crisis came up...
7 Jan, 2021
As the New Year asserts itself — a year that begins in global lockdown...
