Your Climate, Your Change
For Grist, Aura Bogado writes on recent developments in localized action against climate change. Bogado profiles the work of WE ACT (West Harlem Environmental Action) and its work in moving…
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The Paradox of Growth As Good
Martin Kirk writes for Aeon on the paradoxical connection between economic growth and eliminating poverty. Kirk illustrates that increasing the size of the economic pie, by spending the world’s finite…
Strange Waters
And every life that moves, or dies, or multiplies will have an effect of some sort on the lives around it, a different effect than the one it had before.
Technology as Ecology
Suzanne Jacobs writes for Grist about the work of philosopher/technologist Koert van Mensvoort and his new project, the Next Nature Network. Mensvoort’s work seeks to redefine the human civilization’s relationship…
The Sustainability of Music Festivals
As music festivals pile up in the memory of North American summers, the environmental toll of all those plastic water bottles and plastic beer glasses and paper plates covered in…
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Juliana Spahr
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Juliana Spahr about her new book That Winter the Wolf Came, the oil industry, and writing about "difficult" topics.
Call Yourself Ishmael
Finally, a practical way to pursue your dream career as both writer and pirate. For ten days in April, you can set sail for the Caribbean with the Writing at…
Facts About Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson’s original PhD committee voted to dissolve itself: that is the word they used—dissolve. I like to think of his committee as an Airborn tablet being dropped into a glass of water. The glass of water is being held by Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Bee Killers Killing Bees
A week ago, we posted this, about shark proliferation. We also mentioned bees, which aren’t faring as well. Apparently, Wal Mart and Home Depot aren’t helping. See here for why.
Suburbia Saving
An emerging movement seeks to orient suburbs around farms rather than golf courses. “According [to] the American Farmland Trust, more than 6 million acres of agricultural land in the United…
On Fracking and Earthquakes
“The occurrence of yet another freak earthquake in an unusual location is leading many anti-fracking activists…to wonder whether ‘fracking’ in nearby West Virginia may be responsible.” This article discusses the…
Morning Coffee
Life falling short in the “technical drawings of german zeppelins” department? You’re welcome. Don’t pee on airplanes! Photomicrography. NY Times on kosher elevators and other elements of 21st century Orthodox…