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Dear Friends, I have received thoughtful responses to my “Open Letter to Illinois Environmentalists about Fracking Legislation” on May 10, 2013. Many wondered why I disagreed with some of my good friends in Illinois who are pursuing legislation that will regulate horizontal hydraulic fracking. They deserve an answer. I recognize the palpable fear that without legislation, horizontal fracking will [...] 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 Dianne Dumanoski Two decades ago, when I covered the first Earth Summit in Rio, the catch phrase of the day was a purported Chinese proverb warning that “if we keep going down the current road, we’ll end up where we’re headed.” This event still ranks as the largest gathering of heads of state in history. A remarkable [...] 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 ************ Ancient ceremonies linger all around us The choreography takes you Why don’t you dance? Jamie K Reasor ************ “There is a universal biological clock”, he says, “but it ticks in units of energy, [...] By Nancy Myers My granddaughter, born in the summer of the great Gulf gusher, faces a tumultuous world. I do not know what the world will look like when she is my age. Dianne Dumanoski’s latest book, The End of the Long Summer, begins with this paragraph: The future in the modern imagination has always stretched [...] By Carolyn Raffensperger On the morning of August 11th, 2010 residents in Ames Iowa were awakened by a robo-call from the city. “Prepare for unprecedented flooding. Move to high ground. “ Squaw Creek and the Skunk River rose to heights never before seen, even in the disastrous floods of 1993. Soon all [...] By Carolyn Raffensperger “So we break the spell by loving ourselves and each other enough to tell the truth. Our own experience, as inhabitants of an endangered planet, gives us the authority and the authenticity to tell the truth about what we see and feel and know is happening to our world.” Joanna [...] 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 [...] By Carolyn Raffensperger Perhaps the old reductionistic, objective science is a form of autism. This is the science that promotes dissecting frogs, but not loving them enough to work to protect them. It is the science that does risk assessment on toxic chemicals and says that some childhood cancers are acceptable. It is science [...] |
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