Occupy the Moral Ground

The Occupy Wall Street movements and climate action movements stand on the same moral ground and affirm the same moral principles: It’s wrong to wreck the world. It’s wrong to wreck the health and hopes of others. An economic system that forces the people...

A Call to Writers

As the true fury of global warming begins to kick in—forests flash to ashes, storms tear away coastal villages, cities swelter in record-breaking heat, drought singes the Southwest, the Arctic melts—we come face to face with the full meaning of the environmental...

BENEDICTIO

Benedictio: For my students You arrived at the University on a brilliant fall day, with your bike in a box. I watched your mother carry the desk-lamp, trailing its cord, and the laundry bag of clean clothes, watched her wrestle the box of shoes and surge-protectors up...

Presilence (of Eggs and Baskets)

Here’s what I want to know: What did the farmer do after he put all his eggs in one basket and then tripped over a hay-rake? This has been the world’s project for the last few centuries, has it not? The growth economy has narrowed and narrowed future options by...