“Algae eats the fertilizer. Then there are too many algae, no more oxygen and the fish die.” “Carbon capture, yes.” “Do not take away my bees.” “I’ll leave the bees.” “I think water has got to stay at the top. Because we in a drought” “Fertilizer creates sunspills. I feel…

TJ, You made an excellent suggestion to reread your piece. YES. “Different people are good at different things, and by working together, we can meet our needs. Fulfillment comes from simple things: connection to our fellow humans. Putting in a good day’s work. Labor heals the troubled mind.” Sisyphus laboring…

Having sailed the Drake to the South Shetland Islands through English Channel, never seeing land for the clouds, turning South along snow-covered Greenwich Island, we came to Yankee Harbor, where seals, giant petrels, and gentoo penguins greet you on the beach. A few chinstrap penguins stood off to one side, looking like sentries. I stopped on a rocky outcropping while my shipmates walked on for a more intimate encounter with the seaward end of a glacier. I sat down on a boulder and discovered I had the delightful company of a gentoo penguin with his own rock. This is his story to trumpet.

“Greenland lost a record amount of ice during an extra warm 2019, with the melt massive enough to cover California in more than four feet (1.25 meters) of water. “ This report was alarming for many who relied on experts’ findings, particularly regarding climate change. It was not scary for…

The forests of the U.S. Northeast are in peril. Global warming has raised temperatures, improving conditions for insects such as the emerald ash borer, to ravage trees already stressed due to drought and scorching summers. Massachusetts forests experienced 97 wildfires across the state during the summer of 2022. Keeping pace…

Wednesday January 11 at 6 pm, we’ll gather before First Parish Church at the monthly 11th Hour Calling. Now is the eleventh hour for climate action. It is also a time of hope and opportunity to tread more gently, emit less greenhouse gases, draw down and store more carbon, restore…

This is very interesting: Even the original 1972 report “on the exponential economic and population growth with a finite supply of resources”, the Club of Rome does not speak of “Degrowth” but of “The Limits to Growth”. A fundamental difference… as these authors probably knew only too well that since…

Climate Change has brought fiercer storms with devastating floods and long-lasting droughts that stressed and killed plants and animals. Once we controlled water. These days, water is in control and is harming us. What if we changed our relationship with water to better understand its behavior? What if we were…

Perhaps the biggest success coming out of the UN Climate Talks, COP27, was the one least likely to succeed — the creation of a Loss and Damage Fund. To be held responsible for another’s loss and damages, such a fund should have been a nonstarter in a society quick to…