Marble Falls There’s pretty much complete consensus that forests are fundamental in confronting climate change. It’s equally true that they aren’t enough to make everything alright with the world again, but they do add up on the positive side of the ledger. Besides that, it’s easy to love trees in general, for shade, …
Category: Environment
Single Use Plastic and Bengaluru Bags
Houston Years ago, my one-liner response to questions about how I had chosen a career as an organizer of unions and community groups was simple: I was looking for a job where I didn’t have to do heavy lifting. I had to drop that joke, when ACORN offices in the late 70s and 80s …
The Fire This Time
Pearl River Almost everyone with an ounce of common sense knows that the climate is changing. We might be tired of talking about it and discouraged at how little is being done about it, but there’s no escaping the fact that it’s jumping out at us everywhere we look around, even in places we …