On at least a couple of occasions here, I've noted that students of mine have expressed that they don't want to have children because they don't think that a world this impacted by climate change is worth bringing life into. This led to a lot...
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I gave the keynote address for the Rhode Island Labor History Society's annual Labor Day gathering. Despite the horrible weather (it rained 3 inches that day and more in some.
I recently read Tom Turner's biography of Sierra Club leader David Brower. It's alright, more of the story by someone who knew him closely than a real deep historical examination..
As many of you know, I grew up around the controversy around the northern spotted owl in the Pacific Northwest and what that meant for the timber industry. My dad was a plywood mill worker who felt his job was threatened by the owl. In...
Embers fly above a firefighter as he works to control a backfire as the Delta Fire burns in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Calif., on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018. The blaze.
I wanted to point you all to this Aaron Regunberg piece in The New Republic. I should state that I know him slightly. He almost won the lieutenant governor position.
I have been forthright and will remain so that Jimmy Carter was a bad president. Let's just say that some liberals will not be happy when my obituary is published. But Carter also deserves credit for not only his amazing post-presidency, but also his environmental...
Better not do anything to fight climate change because the world totally has this under control. Temperatures in parts of India and Pakistan have reached record levels, putting the lives.
There's a concept pushed in recent years by environmental scholars that what capitalism does is create "cheap nature," or the push to commodify the natural world in a way that.
Cheryl noted earlier that we have three years to do something about climate change. Let's just say that I ain't holding my increasingly overheated breath. One of the problems is that fighting climate change takes a lot of systems working really well together. There are...
One unsung part of Harry Reid's legacy is how hard he fought to protect the public lands of Nevada for the future. We came to know Reid through his work.
Environmental activist Greta Thunberg, of Sweden, addresses the Climate Action Summit in the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters, Monday, Sept. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow) There were a.