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:...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

The House Is on Fire: Why Climate Fiction Is Critical

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...

gestating a feminist economy

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...

Poetry: “Broken Record” by Anshu Gaur

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

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...