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
Dan Cobb: Are you ready to choose the last generation?
We love our kids, of course. And every grandparent can’t help but fall in love with their grandkids. Certainly most of us will love our great grandkids, if we live … 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
Henry David Thoreau: Simplicity
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail … I find it wholesome to be alone the … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: The Great Unraveling
The ideological and physical hold of American imperial power, buttressed by the utopian ideology of neoliberalism and global capitalism, is unraveling. Most, including many of those at the heart of … Continue reading
Video: Taxpayer Subsidies for Unhealthy Foods
What if billions in tax dollars were invested in healthier options rather than given to corporations to subsidize the very foods that are making us sick? Professor of Nutrition Barry … Continue reading
Video: Neil deGrasse Tyson — A Brief History of Everything
Neil deGrasse Tyson gives a brief but fascinating explanation of the origin and history of the universe.
Jeff Biggers: Call It What It Is: A Global Migration Shift From Climate, Not a Migrant or Refugee Crisis
Hundreds more died off the coast of Libya this week, on the heels of 71 deaths of migrants trapped in the back of a truck near Vienna, Austria. At the … Continue reading
Smart Chickens, Playful Pigs, Social Cows, Feeling Fish
Smart Chickens Like all birds, chickens are smart animals with complex and meaningful social relationships. In fact, their intelligence is so advanced that a recent study by the University of … Continue reading
Philip Terman: The Frackin’ Poem
Scarlet tanagers, thrushes, warblers, hawks, spotted salamanders, skunk and possum, all the invisible insects— . the native shrubs, the wild flowers, all the trees cut down, the altered light patterns, … Continue reading
William deBuys: Entering the Mega-Drought Era in America
California — As Both Climate Victim and Responder, the National Style-Setter Leads the Way Long ago, I lived in a cheap flat in San Francisco and worked as the lone straight … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: Evoking the Wrath of Nature
MOUNT WASHINGTON, N.H.—The wind on the peak of Mount Washington—the East Coast’s highest point, where some of the most erratic and treacherous weather in the world occurs—reached 60 miles an … Continue reading
Vanessa German: The Earth Said to me
the earth said to me come here. come here and set down. lend me your ear. put your fear. ooops. she said. i mean put your ear here. lay your … Continue reading
Dan Cobb: President Obama’s Carbon Initiative is Bold and Ground-Breaking, and Falls Desperately Short
President Obama’s initiative to cut US CO2 emissions is “ground-breaking”, “aggressive”, and given the gravity of the crisis we are facing, critically inadequate. Each of us must grasp the fact … Continue reading
