Articles by Wen Stephenson
Wen Stephenson, a writer and climate activist, is a contributor to Grist and the Boston Phoenix and has written about climate and culture for the Boston Globe, The New York Times, and Slate. Follow him on Twitter.
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Through a green glass, darkly: How climate will reshape American history
How does today's climate crisis revise our understanding of our collective past? Mark Fiege, author of a new environmental chronicle of the U.S., takes us on a natural history tour.
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Radiohead and 350.org: Mood music for a climate movement?
The band's introspective dread may not pump you up for a protest rally. But its willingness to face despair head on might be just what climate activists need.
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‘I withdraw’: A talk with climate defeatist Paul Kingsnorth
Longtime environmentalist Paul Kingsnorth argues that we've so thoroughly screwed up the planet that further small wins are pointless.
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Why I’m walking to Walden for Moving Planet
Thoreau wasn’t an environmentalist. That’s why he matters more than ever. Carry on his legacy of civic engagement and activism on Moving Planet day.
