George Monbiot: Accidental Re-Wilding
I stepped out into the sunlight, scarcely able to believe what I had seen or, rather, what I had not. I stared at the hills around me, contrasting them with … Continue reading
Isaiah J. Poole: On the Road From Protest to Power — A Rising Tide
The millions who gathered in Washington and around the country for the historic Women’s March, one day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, made an indisputable statement: Trump may have won the … Continue reading
Rachel Krantz: An Inconvenient Sequel Doesn’t Talk About Animal Agriculture—and That’s Absurd
When I spotted fellow vegan James Cromwell in line for food at an advance screening of An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, I couldn’t help but try to talk to … Continue reading
Patricia Youngblood: Two West Virginia Poems
five hundred mountains over 500 mountains in Appalachia have been leveled by mountaintop removal mining, more than 1,000 miles of streams poisoned and buried in mine waste . the … Continue reading
Appalachian Voices: Mountaintop Removal 101
Mountaintop removal is any method of surface coal mining that destroys a mountaintop or ridgeline, whether or not the mined area will be returned to what is legally described as … Continue reading
Carolyn Gregory: Tin King
The tin-hammered king rubs his hands in glee. His crown shines while covering the holes beneath. He flies around the world acquiring gold and new deals, claiming success … Continue reading
Tom Engelhardt: Hail to the Duffer in Chief
Think of Donald Trump as the plutocratic id loosed in the White House. And who hasn’t noticed the results? Civil war and uproar in Washington with bodies regularly carried out … Continue reading
Michael T. Klare: America’s Carbon-Pusher in Chief
Trump’s Fossil-Fueled Foreign Policy Who says President Trump doesn’t have a coherent foreign policy? Pundits and critics across the political spectrum have chided him for failing to articulate and implement … Continue reading
Audio: Elizabeth Bishop reads “The Fish” (text included)
. Elizabeth Bishop (1911 – 1979) was an American poet and short-story writer who was born in Massachusetts, raised in Nova Scotia, and lived for many years in Brazil with … Continue reading
Video: Lawrence Ferlinghetti reads “Pity the Nation” (text included)
. Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti (born 1919) is an American poet, painter, liberal activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. Author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, … Continue reading
Leonard Steinhorn: Donald Trump’s War on the 1960s
Donald Trump and his supporters may be waging battles against the press, immigrants, voting rights, the environment, science, social welfare programs, Planned Parenthood and what they label political correctness and the … Continue reading
Kristofer Collins: Almond Way
for Scott Silsbe We made heroic work of a few six packs while warm breezes skirted through the screen door and pushed salt crystals and breakfast crumbs around your … Continue reading
Leslie McGrath: Luna Moth
I last saw one decades ago. There were nine or ten that July night moon-green and big as dinner plates some affixed to the doorscreen, others hovering like slow applause … Continue reading
Tim Radford: World’s Young Face $535 Trillion Bill for Climate
The next generation will have to pay a $535 trillion bill to tackle climate change, relying on unproven and speculative technology. LONDON, 19 July, 2017 – One of the world’s … Continue reading
