News Round Up, Friday November 20th
Are we gonna give up or get up? https://www.instagram.com/tv/CHyN000gE4w/?igshid=1ay22ww1pfm0e Biden Plans to Move Fast With a ‘Climate Administration.’ Here’s How. Climate activists ramp up pressure on Biden with protest outside Democratic headquarters:...
The Election and the Long Nights and Long Days
Biden looks very close now in several states. Let us pray, let us hope, let us work, let us keep a...
Election Day & Beyond: Thoughts from the Daily Dose Crew
Aya de Leon: As a pathological clutterer, half my anxiety this election cycle was about whether or...
Pandemic Reveal: Heterosexual Motherhood is a Hostage Situation
My twitter feed blew up over the weekend. The Lily ran a story about how women are losing professional ground in the pandemic. They titled/subtitled the piece, “‘I had to choose being a mother’: With no child care or summer camps, women are being edged out of the...
We Have the Technology to Reverse Climate Change; What We Need Are the Stories
The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet by Kristin OhlsonSometime in the spring last year, I talked to Andrew Millison, one of my oldest friends. He’s a senior instructor in the permaculture program at Oregon...
Climate News Friday, May 22
Americans See Climate as a Concern, Even Amid Coronavirus Crisis: Researchers thought Covid-19 might displace climate change as a threat in the American mind. It hasn’t, according to a new survey. By John Schwartz Climate change is turning parts of Antarctica green,...
What She-Ra season 5 can teach us about the November election and the Green New Deal…
As the weeks march forward, I continue to shelter-in-place with my family. This past weekend, we had a media first. I let my kid binge-watch an entire season of Netflix over the weekend. She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Season 5 (the finale!) For anyone unfamiliar,...
Power Trip: The Story of Energy, a PBS Series to watch!
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...
Alternative Energy: How to Create Graduations and Climate Solutions in the Time of Pandemic
My kid is graduating eighth grade this year, in a couple of weeks. In a typical year, his main homeroom/ ELA/ humanities teacher, Sue, takes the eighth grade to San Francisco for a field trip, and they all talk about their plans for the next year, their thoughts and...
On Pipelines — and 5 Ways to Defeat Them
Kids from preschool to grad school drew postcards for the governor, hung “CONDEMNED” signs on their own homes, and got interviewed for the evening news.
Climate News Friday, May 15th
How the Climate Movement is Trying to fix Joe Biden by Justine Calma I'm Joining the Biden-Sanders Taskforce on Climate. Here's Why by Varshini Prakash, Executive Director of Sunrise Movement The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying: The...
Crying Over Rainbow Cars & Youth Leadership for Climate Sanity
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 4-year-old from New...
A Portal to What Kind of Future
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...
In other news – people are crazy.
From Colorado Restaurants to living free in pollution - this is my take on other news.
The House Is on Fire: Why Climate Fiction Is Critical
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...
Climate News, Saturday May 9th – The danger of New York’s “Screen New Deal”
For this week's climate news, we have one particularly significant article: Naomi Klein has identified the biggest antagonist to the Green New Deal to hit the scene, she calls it the Screen New Deal. She lays it out in all its brutally painful clarity in The...
gestating a feminist economy
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 acknowledged, but we don't...
Afro-Futurism collage series: Black People Join the Climate Movement to Save the Future…
I love that line from the "Message From The Future" video with AOC, Molly Crabapple & Naomi Klein: "We can be whatever we have the courage to see." On that note, I have been visualizing Black people in the climate movement. Here's my latest from those musings......
Risk Ratio: Budgeting Now So No One Pays the Price for Climate Catastrophe
In our family, we always laugh about the long list of side effects pharmaceutical ads will place at the end of an ad showing slo-mo joyous health and happiness supposedly provided by the suggested cure. Often "risk of death" is listed as a side effect. And yet, many...
Poetry: “Broken Record” by Anshu Gaur
Broken Record A crowd of fearful, anxious bodies collect In front of the security guarding the elevators Border control on the ground floor of Fortis Hospital, New Delhi, India “Visitor hours are only from 9 - 11” “Only two at a time” “You have to have a pass” Stern...
Climate News, Friday May 1st
This Luxury Tower Has Everything: Pools. A Juice Bar. And Flood Resilience: Unless we learn to adapt, only the rich will be able to avoid the ravages of climate change By Matt Shaw How to Combat Climate Depression by Bill McKibben States Are Laying a Road Map for...
The Moral Imagination of a Refrigerator
April 30, 2020 The Moral Imagination of a Refrigerator By Vijaya Nagarajan It was 1993 and I was living in the beautiful city of Madurai in southern India, filled with the scent of fresh jasmine flowers woven into the hair of Tamil women’s braids. I was there on a...
Intersectional Fat Politics: Kiese Laymon’s Heavy, Donald Tr*mp’s Body & Fossil Fuel Gluttony
You’re only as sick as your secrets. I am fat, Black, and female. And it was at the intersection of these identities that I learned about fat and the body—what would become my fat body and the bodies of others. Latina women, Black women, white women, and other women...