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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 →
The skies above North American cities are turning orange from wildfire smoke. A city in the desert is recording temperatures of 60°C. An 89-year-old scientist who has spent his entire life fighting for the planet is telling us we've lost. What does any of this mean — and what do we do now? When David... 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 message to every young person about the Climate and Ecological Emergency Imagine waking up to clean air, drinking water you never have to worry about, eating food grown in healthy soil, and looking out at a world full of life — forests, rivers, animals, and people all thriving together. That should not be a... 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 →
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 →
On Controlled Thinking, Critical Thinking, and the Five Emergencies There is a kind of quiet that only arrives late at night. The phone is dark. The day is finally spent. And the mind, set loose at last, begins to wander. Many people use that quiet to replay old arguments — to rehearse what they wish... Continue Reading →
The notes vanished. The path got clearer. The setback is the setup. Hi friends, I lost my notes. All of them. Every electronic note I had built studying the CLCPA, the Scoping Plan, and the broader climate-learning tips I had been collecting along the way — gone in a single sweep. Months of careful work.... Continue Reading →
A personal reckoning with David Wallace-Wells, then and now I pulled up the old episode again this week. The Doctor's Farmacy conversation with David Wallace-Wells — recorded in July 2019 — sat in my browser like a letter I had written to myself and forgotten to open. Back then, his book The Uninhabitable Earth was... Continue Reading →
Why atomic Linux distros — Bluefin, Aurora, Silverblue, Secureblue — and Qubes OS deserve a seat at the climate table, alongside the AI we are learning to wield with care. "Qubes OS is a security-focused operating system that allows you to organize your digital life into compartments called 'qubes.' If one qube is compromised, the... Continue Reading →
“In many of the segments of culture today, the meaning of life is often reduced to cruising with the popular culture. It doesn’t take a course in psychoanalysis to glimpse severe anxiety behind this posture of know-nothingness. If you had ideas and took yourself seriously, you would have to be constantly awake, educating yourself, and... Continue Reading →
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