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ChatGPT said: Before you click away, please take a moment to scroll down and explore the extended list of links at the end of this article. You will be hard-pressed to find another collection this long, this carefully selected, and this focused on honest news, media ethics, and the realities of the Climate and Ecological... Continue Reading →
(A fictional future scenario, but one grounded in plausible developments.) Published: March 15, 2035 | By Elena Vasquez, Science & Society Journal It is hard to believe now, but there was a time when we feared our own creations. Walk through Lisbon today and you will see what would have startled people a decade ago:... Continue Reading →
A Flag Day reflection on power, conscience, and the courage to be humanitarian first Today is Flag Day. On June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress resolved that the new nation would carry thirteen stripes and thirteen stars in a blue field — what they called a new constellation. Two years earlier, on June 14,... Continue Reading →
A Voting Rights Reflection for a Democracy That Must Be Practiced Excerpt: Rights do not survive on memory alone. From New York's early suffrage exclusions to Mississippi's machinery of disenfranchisement, from Selma to the Supreme Court's 2026 gutting of the Voting Rights Act, the history of the ballot shows that democracy requires constant public defense... Continue Reading →
We created a mock front page styled newspaper cover, with a hopeful, breakthrough-focused tone and subtle realism to help give us a little hope towards the future. CLIMATE & ECOLOGICAL EMERGENCY TIMES“Accountability. Restoration. Future.” June 11, 2032 | Global Edition GLOBAL COURT RULES AGAINST FOSSIL FUEL GIANTSHistoric verdict mandates $9.3 trillion in reparations for climate... Continue Reading →
We haven’t gone quiet.We’ve been designing something sharper, more useful, and very much alive. A quick signal from Climate Tribe Social If you have wondered whether we drifted off, rest assured: we did the opposite. We went heads‑down, into the messy, practical edge where the Climate and Ecological Emergency stops being an abstraction and starts... Continue Reading →
“You cannot easily fit women into a structure that is already coded as male; you have to change the structure.”— Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto There are quotes that explain a problem, and then there are quotes that expose the architecture of the problem itself. Mary Beard’s words do the latter. They remind... Continue Reading →
When the Helper Becomes the Hole Two Wake-Up Calls About AI Agents — and How We Use Them Anyway A Climate Tribe heads-up on digital resiliency There are weeks when the news lands like a cold splash of water. This was one of them. Two stories crossed my desk back to back, and both of... Continue Reading →
Peel-and-Stick Power and the Fight for Who Gets to Generate For seventy years, solar power has been heavy. Heavy in the literal sense — glass and aluminum, racks and rails, ballast and bolts, the slow ceremony of drilling holes in a roof and praying it doesn’t leak. But heavy in a deeper sense too. Heavy... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/U5-JcTxj3vs?si=Jm66OZfm9ND15V12 Unity is a transformative force. It is one of the deepest powers human beings possess, because when people come together with a shared purpose, something greater than the individual begins to move. A single voice can inspire, but many voices joined together can shake walls, open doors, and awaken entire communities. That is the... Continue Reading →
Extreme Heat, Wet-Bulb Temperatures, and the Climate Emergency A deep-dive blog post inspired by ClimateAdam’s video, “How Climate Change boosts Killer Heatwaves.” Climate change is making extreme heat more frequent and more dangerous. This deep dive explains the 2021 Pacific Northwest heat dome, wet-bulb temperature, health risks, and the need for climate resilience. Opening: the... Continue Reading →
Back in 2021, I shared a short piece about an unusual half-acre on the lower south side of Providence — the Edible Forest Garden at Roger Williams Park. The idea was simple and a little radical: plant a patch of city land so it behaves like a forest, in layers and relationships, and then mostly... Continue Reading →
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