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...
View ArticleRepublican 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...
View ArticlePeak 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...
View ArticleYou 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleFor 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...
View ArticleBugging 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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