by Vijaya Nagarajan | May 20, 2020 | Personal Essays
A remarkable six part series has launched over the past few weeks on PBS––“Power Trip: The Story of Energy”––“Water”, “Food”, “Cities”, “Wealth”, “Transportation”, and “War”. This series explores the ways in which energy flows in and out of our use of water, food, and...
by Mary DeMocker | May 17, 2020 | Personal Essays, Uncategorized
There’s a lot of talk about pipelines, lately, ever since Donald Trump fast-tracked their approval. The infamous Keystone XL pipeline is surging forward, which means many heroic people are working tirelessly to stop it. Here on the Oregon coast, we’re...
by Aya de Leon | May 14, 2020 | Audio/Visual, Personal Essays
In the wake of Mother’s Day, with all the brutal things happening in our country and our world, I am feeling weepy. I am always a sap, but nowadays, it is pretty extra. In this weepy state, I have a new favorite song, “Rainbow Cars,” written by a...
by Vijaya Nagarajan | May 12, 2020 | Personal Essays
The coronavirus shut down California nearly two months ago. For these seven or eight weeks, there was suffering, there was reflection, there was a sense that this door that we were forced to go through may wake us up. Arundhati Roy, the brilliant...
by Susan Defreitas | May 11, 2020 | Personal Essays
I write climate fiction. Or strive to, anyway. At times, the term seems to be treated as a subset of catastrophic, post-apocalyptic, or even dystopian fiction, and so far, that’s not been my approach. My approach has been centered on the here and now, on the solutions...
by Florencia Manovil | May 7, 2020 | Personal Essays
Like everything else in 2020, this Mother’s Day is a bit different. This date is generally be a somewhat sad – even bitter – one for me and other single moms I know; it’s the one day our otherwise thankless, unpaid work is supposed to be...
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