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The climate change mountaintop

Photo: bortescristian/Flickr. These days I tend to beat myself up for screwing around; my biggest time sinks are video games (I never did quite kick my Civilization 5 habit) and television (my beloved...

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Republican renaissance through climate change

Image: mariopiperni/Flickr. The Republicans are a party in crisis. Having lost the election, they’re now wracked with internal strife and prospects for a turnaround in the near term appear dim. The...

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Peak Wall Street coming this year?

While I focus primarily on climate change, the problem is so interwoven with the machinery of the global economy that I end up absorbing a lot of economic information as a byproduct. Lately this...

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You must believe: how climate change is like the Boston Celtics

Former Boston Celtics Center Kendrick Perkins wasn’t the best player but was key to his team’s victory. Photo: Keith Allison/Flickr. In February 2011, the Boston Celtics were riding high. They had the...

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The climate speech he should have given

Photo: D.C.Atty/Flickr. At the end of June, President Obama gave his first major address on climate change to the nation. While many environmentalists jumped for joy, I found myself singularly...

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The economy isn’t coming back

Photo: Damian Gadal/Flickr. Presently Americans wait with bated breath, watching sales numbers and unemployment statistics, grasping for signs that an economic recovery is underway. We search for...

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The answer to climate change

Photo: tedeytan/Flickr. When I give these climate talks, by the end people are typically agitated and full of questions. “What technology is going to fix this?” “How are we ever get people to agree on...

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The high price of materialism

Photo: HelloImNik/Flickr. A war on climate change is a war on materialism, plain and simple. The carbon pollution spewing out of our power plants and tail pipes is a natural byproduct of the monstrous...

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For the sake of the climate, just let go

Photo: fudj/Flickr. Ours is a world of increasing control. Control over our environment, our citizens, and the very building blocks of life. Culturally we learn to think of control as a good thing. Yet...

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Bugging out from Boston to Vermont

Somerville, Mass., near Boston, is lively but crowded. Photo: Matt Chan/Flickr. My wife Sarah and I are moving to Vermont. I’ve been studying climate change and its interconnected problems for a year,...

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