Earth Day 2020 is upon us, bringing with it more urgent reminders about the need to act on the climate crisis and other pressing environmental issues. This year, on April 22, Earth Day celebrates 50 years. While some groups have been forced to cancel events because of COVID-19, many more around the world will commemorate […]

In some ways COVID-19 has given us a very important gift. It has given us time – time with family, time with our thoughts, and time to look at things much bigger than ourselves. Today was supposed to be our spring litter clean up event. We planned it for this weekend because we thought it […]

Legacy (noun): something received from the past or transmitted from an ancestor or predecessor It’s hard to think of any aspect of our daily lives that won’t be profoundly affected by COVID-19. Articles and news reports dated before February 2020 have been rendered practically irrelevant. We must reconsider virtually all matters of existence in light […]

We are under attack. Of course, the we in that statement can be considered to be environmentalists or environmentalism. In a larger sense, however, we are the people of the United States. And to expand it even further, we are the entire global environment. This attack is being undertaken by agencies and institutions of the […]

“You can’t have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That’s a recipe for disaster. And I don’t mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.” Neil deGrasse Tyson The populist head of state, despite all evidence, denies climate science. He (and […]

• The fires have raged for months, and will continue for at least another month.   • Australia has always had problems with brush fires, but record temperatures and record drought have exacerbated the issue to unprecedented levels.   • The fires have ravaged the wildlife population of the continent, killing nearly half a billion […]