Michael T. Klare: Welcome to a New Planet
Not so long ago, it was science fiction. Now, it’s hard science — and that should frighten us all. The latest reports from the prestigious and sober Intergovernmental Panel on … Continue reading
Dan Cobb: Documents prove Big Oil, Big Coal have known and lied about global warming for decades
Hundreds of pages of recovered documents show that even with detailed knowledge of the link between carbon emissions and climate change, the fossil fuels industry has lied for decades and … Continue reading
Michael Waters: Chernobyl Necklace
. Among “countries that are counterfeits of Death,” Baudelaire in 1846 could not foresee Belarus Where throats festooned with red crescent scars Grin across schoolrooms and orphanage wards. . Even … Continue reading
Video: Diet and Climate Change — Cooking Up a Storm
— While epidemics of chronic disease are our leading causes of death, global warming is also a public health threat. How can we eat to combat dietary diseases and greenhouse … Continue reading
Marc Jampole: The Pope is right to hate cap-and-trade, which is akin to the Church selling indulgences
Yale economist William Nordhaus writes as if he wants to address human-induced global warming—euphemistically called “climate change” even by the most ardent environmentalists—but I think he loves what he calls … Continue reading
Jose Padua: Interview with the Mountain
When I first came to interview the mountain it said the hour was late, that it was too tired, that it doubted it had anything of significance to say, anything … Continue reading
Paul Christensen: Oppression, Repression, and the American South
Freud’s Hydraulic Jack They say Freud found one of his principal metaphors about neurosis from the newly invented hydraulic jack, in which a chamber is filled with fluid and is … Continue reading
Video: Suzanne Lee — Grow your own clothes
Designer Suzanne Lee demonstrates how she grows sustainable textiles from kombucha mushrooms. The resulting material may variously resemble paper or leather. It is extremely receptive to natural dyes, but not … Continue reading
Our Ambitious Call to Transform the World
A message to the world ahead of the UN Summit on Sustainable Development and the COP21 climate talks in Paris. We world citizens unite in a common call to all … Continue reading
Vanessa German: The Secret Cities of Ohio
there are a million secret cities in the middle of ohio. a million hidden gravel roads pressed deep into the way back like creases on the dark side of god’s … Continue reading
George Monbiot: Smoke and Mirrors
Pollution, as scandals on both sides of the Atlantic show, is a physical manifestation of corruption. In London, the latest figures suggest that it now kills more people than smoking. … Continue reading
Elizabeth Gargano: Harvest
One morning the crows settle on the corn in our garden, dark flames on the candled stalks. . I plant a broom in the earth, straw end up, wrap it … Continue reading
Marc Jampole: The Republicans who would be king
The longer GOP candidates debated, the more they agreed with each other, except on Iran & taxes We won’t know for a few days—and maybe weeks—who won Wednesday’s debate between … Continue reading
Nick Graham: The Edge of Light Is Always Shadow
I. Bait Ball At the rim of the circling swarm of fish are shadows — a tickle of an ending that becomes mouths billowing open to consume what must be … Continue reading
