Writing to Deadline

Writing to Deadline

Three of us launched the Daily Dose a couple of months ago out of Vijaya’s living room. We made it a nine-month commitment, through the vital 2020 election. As we were planning and even as we began, we had no idea that we’d be sheltering in place during a global...

Climate News Friday, April 24th: EARTH WEEK

Graphic by Emily Thiessen Tune in to Earth Day Live!  Green energy could drive Covid-19 recovery with $100tn boost: Speeding up investment could deliver huge gains to global GDP by 2050 while tackling climate emergency, says report Michigan's Ex-Gov. Rick Snyder Knew...

Earth Day 2020: let’s water our imagination

Earth Day 2020: let’s water our imagination

https://vimeo.com/410494176   We can’t celebrate today like we have on other years -- with picnics, coastline cleanups, mass actions. So on this surreal 2020 Earth Day, we wanted to invite you to honor our planet -- our beautiful, hurting home -- not just with...

Earth Week: Three Poems of Climate Change

Earth Week: Three Poems of Climate Change

This week, in honor of Earth Day, I'm sharing three poems that speak to the seasons, the way that they're changing, and the ways they're changing us. ("When the rains came" was first published in The Lake Rises: Poems to &for Our Bodies of Water; "Last Dollar...

Climate in the News, Friday April 17th

Think This Pandemic Is Bad? We Have Another Crisis Coming. Addressing climate change is a big-enough idea to revive the economy. By Rhiana Gunn-Wright Sunrise Bay Area Virtual Earth Day Events! The US has a collective action problem that’s larger than the coronavirus...

Speaking Out: a Seder and a Survey to Break the Silences

Speaking Out: a Seder and a Survey to Break the Silences

Last night I sat at our table between one of my children and my partner, staring into the small screen of my laptop. The computer was set opposite a rush-job Sedar plate, and on the screen were the faces of about a dozen folks I just adore. A Sedar is the celebration...

Climate News, Friday April 10th

Youth Activists Letter to Vice President Joe Biden People's Bailout Center of Gravity for the Resistance By Max Elbaum Why The Green New Deal is Cheap, Actually By Tim Dickinson Without rights for farm workers, EU's food supplies are at risk: Amid the coronavirus...

Poets, A Call to Duty by Pablo Paredes

Poets, A Call to Duty by Pablo Paredes

One of my UC Berkeley students, Pablo Paredes, wrote the following poem, and it just felt so timely. You can also see him perform it in the video, below.   Fear and despair are airborne diseases peor que el Coronavirus They ... try to divide us But, we’ve been...

Climate News Friday, April 2

Maria Medem, New York Times Better than a bailout: Since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, three states have passed laws specifically aimed at preventing climate activists from protesting by Emily Atkin Coronavirus and climate change: The pandemic is a fire drill for...

A State By State Approach?

A State By State Approach?

NRDC has a list of all of the environmental bills up for consideration this year in California. One in particular, AB1839, looks remarkably similar to the Green New Deal presented on the federal level. And, it's supposed to. It's even called, "The California Green New...

The Gift Economy and Covid-19

Coronavirus Lockdown Sends Migrant Workers On A Long And Risky Trip Home--NPR     Over the past week, Indian men and women of all ages, including families and elders, have been migrating out of the urban centers of Delhi, Mumbai, and Chennai. Hundreds of thousands are...