Climate Corner: The Plastic Pandemic
Imagine you’re an albatross whose stomach is so bloated with plastic that you can hardly walk. Or a sea turtle suffocating on a plastic bag that you mistook for a jellyfish. Or a socialite at a gala,...
View ArticleClimate Corner: How Seaweed Could Save the World
We’ve all been living in the Goldilocks period — what scientists have determined to be not too hot, not too cold, but just right for the birth of human civilization. I don’t know about you, but after...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Correct History
I started writing the Willie Black mystery series back in 2010 after a long career of writing literary fiction (10 of those so far). Some of the first 10 Willies (all published by The Permanent Press)...
View ArticleClimate Corner: Hope (The Pessimist’s Guide)
This summer, my 21-year-old daughter, Carley, said, “Mom, you act like buying a bamboo toothbrush is going to save the world.” She told me she was, “done trying to be environmental.” Wow. If this one’s...
View ArticleWant to get Greener? Join the CREW
Last month in my column on hope and its evil twin sister, hopelessness, I put forth that the onus was on corporations and government to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But while we’re waiting for...
View ArticleSustainable Living: The Hottest New Look in Fashion? Nothing
If you’re like me, and about 258 million other Americans, your closet is where clothing goes to die. Traipsing through this burial ground of impulse decisions, I’ve often wondered, ‘How did we get...
View ArticleSustainable Living: Good Cow. Bad Cow.
There’s this recurring nightmare I had as a child where the McDonald’s “Hamburglar,” staple of 1970s TV commercials, breaks into our house and steals all our hamburgers. It was only a dream, but for...
View ArticleSustainable Living: Banking On The Planet
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View ArticleSustainable Living: Eco-Friendly Investing — The Cha-Ching factor
In 2014, Archbishop Desmond Tutu called for a worldwide boycott against the fossil fuel industry. He went on to describe investing in renewable energy as, “the correct moral choice.” True. But anyone...
View ArticleSustainable Living: Saving The Starry Night
When I recently read in the Huffington Post that 16 percent of Americans claim to have spotted a UFO, I thought, “Really? How?” Our skies have become so filled with light pollution, how would we even...
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