Jon Swan urges mainstream media outlets to overcome their paralysis and confront "the single-most important story of our time: climate change, its causes and effects."
Ecological Transformation
Choosing Life by Rosh Hashanah 5790
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David Seidenberg argues that the biggest existential threat to Israel isn't Iran or human rights—it's climate change.
Ecological Transformation
Climate Strike – What an Amazing and Inspiring Day
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Rabbi Lerner and Cat Zavis share photos and their experience from the Climate Strike in San Francisco.
Ecological Transformation
The Collective Asteroid of Human History
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The “Pyrocene” is upon us. Tom Engelhardt paints a disturbing picture of the climate crisis that threatens us now and in future generations.
Ecological Transformation
The Amazon
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Leonardo Boff debunks myths and offers a socioecological perspective on the intricacies of the Amazon Rainforest.
Ecological Transformation
Matthew Fox on Developing Environmental Consciousness
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Matthew Fox urges to the graduating class of Oberlin College to "stand together in the choice [...] to see our species thrive and all these other species with it."
Arts & Cultural Critique
Reflections on a Line by Anna Akhmatova*
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"The sea that tumbles onto shore is not the sea / we waded in as kids. We’ve changed its nature." A new poem from Jon Swan.
Ecological Transformation
Book Review: The End of Ice by Dahr Jamail
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Deena Metzger calls Dahr Jamail’s new book a record of "the terrible knowledge, moral anguish, and great love of a journalist who embeds himself in the physical reality that the natural world is suffering."
Extinction Illness: Grave Affliction and Possibility
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Deena Metzger captures the grief and pain we all experience living at a time of global extinction and offers the only solution - to stop extinction.
Emancipatory Spirituality
Can you feel the Earthquake?
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Can you feel the Earth quaking? Simon Mont's prose asks us to envision a beautiful world beyond the pain of oppression and trauma.
Ecological Transformation
China’s Bold Energy Vision
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Jeffrey Sachs shares how China’s proposed energy initiative is a bold strategy fit for the scale of the most important challenge the world faces today.
Environment
The Real Homeland Security Threat
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Juan Cole argues that the real threat to homeland security isn't "fringe radicals" in the Middle East but our own environmentally destructive habits.
Politics & Society
The Invisible Monster of Climate Change
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It's all too easy to envision the disintegration of climate and democracy in John Feffer's engrossing piece "A Fairy Tale from 2050" coming true in the very near future.
Other Voices
The need for a low-carbon energy based economy won’t go away
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Jeffrey D. Sachs makes it clear why we need to switch to a low-fuel economy.
Ecological Transformation
Stand Together or Starve Alone
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Food insecurity in the U.S. has increased since the beginning of the century. Mark Winne argues that to reverse this trend, food advocates need to collaborate.