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By Rebecca Altman Gasior “I’ve never been to a political rally,” my husband says after I suggest going to the Climate Forward Rally in Washington, DC over February vacation. He is a scientist, an entrepreneur, a pragmatist. Sometimes he slips and introduces me as a “socialist,” though really I’m a sociologist. “Me neither,” I sigh, “nothing of [...] By Carolyn Raffensperger I have a hypothesis about the lack of public support for environmental action. I suspect that many people suffer from a sense of moral failure over environmental matters. They know that we are in deep trouble, that their actions are part of it, but there is so little they or anyone can do [...] By Carolyn Raffensperger In almost every field of influence in the United States men hold more positions of power and often by significant percentage points. Women’s voices are silenced in most political spheres. The question is what difference does that make? On occasion I have been told that I should take a back seat [...] By Nancy Myers Matt Damon is starring in a new movie to be made about fracking, The Promised Land. Of course, there was the powerful documentary, Gasland, whose maker, Joshua Fox, was arrested trying to film a House Science Committee hearing on fracking for a sequel to Gasland. Another documentary is in the works, Frack Nation, [...] By Katie Silberman The New York Times recently ran a piece titled “Is It Safe to Play Yet?”, with the puzzling subtitle: “Going to Extreme Lengths to Purge Household Toxins.” Puzzling because, instead of focusing on the very real health threats to children from exposures to toxic chemicals (cancer, asthma, learning disabilities and more), the writer [...] By Carolyn Raffensperger My friend and SEHN board member Rebecca Altman posted this comment after the blog entitled the Respectful Generation Standard: “Carolyn, … I feel like my interaction with SEHN to date has been like a mind-blowing, eye-opening reading list. I would be interested, and perhaps other readers here, too, might love to read your list [...] By Carolyn Raffensperger A quiet, ordinary canary, an older female named Vida had sent many of her brood into the mines. She had had enough. “What”, she thought,” can I do to stop sending our children into the mines to warn the miners of death? The mines themselves are death. This is [...] Guest Blog by Caitlin Sislin As a young environmental attorney, I am fortunate to count Carolyn Raffensperger as one of my most trusted mentors. Carolyn’s advice and guidance deeply inform my work as the Advocacy Director for Women’s Earth Alliance, where I am building and stewarding a new pro bono legal and policy advocacy initiative to [...] By Carolyn Raffensperger Over the years I’ve had many young people come up to me and ask how I do this environmental work without collapsing in despair. They are acutely aware of how desperate the situation is. They doubt that the rain forest or ocean or jaguar will be salvageable by the time they are able [...] By Nancy Myers I receive daily email invitations to put my name to an appeal: Reform health care. Slow climate change. End poverty. Save a species. Easy enough, just hit return. You don’t even have to give money although you are always asked. I’ve been calling this “slacktivism” for some time and thought I may have invented the [...] |
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