Sarah van Gelder: To the Millions Who Have Stood Up to the Trump Administration — Thank You
The Republican health care bill is dead. Good riddance. The bill was so harsh that even Donald Trump called the House version “mean.” And yet, this legislation was stopped at … Continue reading
Margaret Klein Salamon: The Planet Is Warming. And It’s Okay to Be Afraid
Why being fearful can be part of a healthy, heroic response to the climate crisis. Last Week, David Wallace-Wells wrote a cover story for of New York Magazine, “The Uninhabitable … Continue reading
Ruth Clark: Here in Hereford — The Grotto
Two weeks of brutal heat, the highest temperatures we have ever experienced, well into the 100’s. The first week very dry, the second, humidity slowly rising. No monsoon rains will … Continue reading
Tim Radford: Extinction gathers pace as species vanish
Planet Earth is undergoing a “great extinction,” researchers say – and we need to worry much more about the annihilation of biology. LONDON, 12 July, 2017 – The planet could … Continue reading
Michael Simms: What is Destroying the Earth?
A sense of entitlement among Westerners is driving many of the environmental problems that are destroying our world. Lately, I’ve been thinking about my friend Carla*, a longtime environmental activist. … Continue reading
Video: Human Population Through Time
. It took 200,000 years for our human population to reach 1 billion—and only 200 years to reach 7 billion. But growth has begun slowing, as women have fewer babies … Continue reading
Jessica Corbett: ‘When Rising Seas Hit Home’ — Hundreds of Towns Threatened by 2100
Daunting new report shows coastal communities are at-risk and unprepared for flooding caused by climate change. As an iceberg the size of Delaware broke away from an ice shelf in … Continue reading
Frida Berrigan: Feeling Not Quite So Hopeless in a World on the Skids
Why the Resistance is fertile, not futile. In the wake of Donald Trump’s inauguration, George Orwell’s 1984 soared onto bestseller lists, as did Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here and … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: Eating Our Way To Disease
Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn—whose documentary “Cowspiracy,” about the environmental impact of the animal agriculture industry, led me to become a vegan—recently released a new film, “What the Health,” which … Continue reading
Ian Boyden: Frog Song
—Dedicated to everyone who has lost their freedom in the pursuit of freedom 1. This page is a quiet pond The lamp an unmoving sun My hand traces familiar arcs … Continue reading
Megan M. Draheim: No, Killing Coyotes Does Not Help Ranchers
There is no clear evidence that lethal control works to protect livestock. Few Americans probably know that their tax dollars paid to kill 76,859 coyotes in 2016. The responsible agency … Continue reading
Chuck Taylor: The Song Dog
. Note Posted on Back Door for Coyote Sorry, I didn’t know you still yodeled your yips around these hills. How stupid of me to assume that just because a … Continue reading
Noam Chomsky: On Trump and the State of the Union
Over the past few months, as the disturbing prospect of a Trump administration became a disturbing reality, I decided to reach out to Noam Chomsky, the philosopher whose writing, speaking … Continue reading
Julia Conley: As Climate Threats Mount, Experts Say No Time Left for Deceitful “Debate”
As new and worrying evidence of global warming’s destructive impacts mount around the globe, climate experts are saying efforts by the Trump administration’s EPA chief to discredit decades of climate … Continue reading
