Climate Culture

Shining a Light on Dark Corners of the Budget Process

I don’t know any other way to stop the ugly, destructive, sneaky, greedy, immoral, undemocratic goings-on in the dark corners of the congressional budget process, except to keep shining bright […]

All We Are Saying Is Give Peace a Chance

Recently I invited friends around the world to ask their friends and neighbors a simple question: “What would the world be like if it were what you really want, not […]

Mercury Rising

Ten Hail Marys and an Old Coke Can

Ouch! Stop Pooling My Hair!

Seven-Plus Wonders of Sustainability

A couple of years ago, while I was doing something else, I heard snatches of a radio program in which Alan Durning, the director of Seattle’s Northwest Environment Watch, talked […]

Arf

Brandi Chastain ain't got nothing on these ladies

Virginia Sutherland sits in her orderly ranch kitchen in Moffat, Colo. She’s drinking a cup of coffee, smoking a cigarette, and fiddling with a box of recipe cards. But we […]

Martha Stewart's Living Green

Bright ideas for saving energy

Power plants and climate change have been on the minds of many consumers who lost electrical service and sweated out the record-breaking temperatures that recently hit areas across the country. […]