Although I was a radical in my youth, I felt a twinge of skepticism when several years ago I read Naomi Klein’s breakthrough book, “This Changes...
When you visit grandchildren you get to roll on the couch with their wiggly selves, hoist them from bar to bar on the jungle gym and receive hand...
It is time to transform. We are at a watershed moment in the climate change movement, when following the flow of the status quo will lead to...
Sometimes when writing this climate change column I feel like a sportscaster. A powerful, filthy-rich, entrenched, well-uniformed team fights a...
The oceans are warming, and the Greenland ice sheet is melting, both occurring faster even than expected. Australia is the hottest it has ever been...
I am writing from a Tokyo hotel where my husband and I are meeting my daughter and her husband and small children to fly with them to their home in...
Things are becoming clearer. I admit that, even to those of us who are gripped by it, climate change has seemed vague and hard to comprehend. The...
We are standing on ground that is shifting under our feet. We can feel it.Last week the Washington Post reported on a Draft Environmental Impact...
Labor Day: Looking at my calendar for the week, the highlights are working and voting in the midterm primaries on Tuesday, canvassing South Street...
I really want to write good news. Honestly and personally, I hate heat and I hate suffering. And I hate rants. I want to write joyously about how...
My husband is rightfully proud of himself. He is an anthropologist in the process of retiring from Smith College after a distinguished career of...
It is harder to figure out what not to write about in climate news than to find important subjects.The onslaught is devastating though there are...