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Mail-In Voting, Democratic Guardrails, Ordinary Voters — and Why This Matters to the Climate Emergency I will begin with something simple: I am not a political or voting-law expert. I am learning. And today I found myself trying to understand a Supreme Court decision involving mail-in voting that, at first, sounded technical and distant. The... Continue Reading →
An Earth Day call for cities to stop waiting and start learning Tomorrow, Wednesday, April 22, 2026, is Earth Day, and this year’s global theme is “Our Power, Our Planet.” That theme matters because it reminds us that climate action is not only about national pledges or international summits. It is also about what happens... Continue Reading →
Democracy, Climate, and the Power of Our Vote Why Voting Matters in a Time of Democratic, Climate, and Ecological Emergency There are moments in American history when voting can feel too small for the scale of the problems in front of us. A ballot is a piece of paper, a screen, a set of marks.... Continue Reading →
How 2026's Extremes Are Waking Us Up — and Why Our Kids and the Living World Can't Wait for Us to Finish the Debate On July 4, 2026, the United States set out to celebrate its 250th birthday, and the atmosphere sent regrets. More than 100 million Americans were under heat alerts as storms, flooding,... Continue Reading →
A reflection on our Semiquincentennial, the noise that's trying to drown out our goodness, and the deeper emergency waiting on the other side of our attention. Two hundred and fifty years. That's a long time for a nation to keep arguing with itself about who it wants to be. Today, on this Fourth of July,... Continue Reading →
A bit of historical background in preparation for tomorrow’s three blog posts: one here, one at ClimateChangeCommunity.com, and one at cCcmty.com. They should be posted by 6:00 am. Executive Summary In the summer of 1776, as the Continental Congress debated independence from Britain, a twenty-three-year-old Black soldier and lay preacher named Lemuel Haynes composed the... 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 →
What I learned when I asked an AI the simplest question I could think of — and why the honest answer is more hopeful than the easy one I asked an AI a plain question: What is the best way to share climate solutions worldwide? I expected a tidy answer. A list. Maybe a tech... Continue Reading →
A deep-dive blog post on democratic sovereignty, war powers, lobbying, secrecy, and the lives placed at risk when policy is made in someone else’s shadow. Remember, this is me learning out loud, so consider that reality. Drafted for publication | May 26, 2026 Opening: the comment section as a warning flare The linked Jack Cocchiarella... Continue Reading →
Democracy Is Begging for a Leader Somewhere tonight there is a town hall with the lights still on, and no one is certain who will unlock it in the morning. Not because the town failed. Because the ballot was blank, and no one came forward. We have learned to speak about the climate and ecological... Continue Reading →
World Climate Day, and the voices born for this moment Some days are coincidences. Today is not. May 15 is observed by communities around the world as World Climate Day — a day intended to wake the human family to what the atmosphere has been saying for decades. And by some quiet design of history,... Continue Reading →
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