empowerment & inner transformation…
__________________________________
Dissecting “Make America Great Again” — and What the Slogan Costs Us Now I turn 26 on September 11th. (For the purpose of this article lets pretend that I turn 26 on September 11th. Which means I was one year and one day old when the towers came down. I have never drawn a single... Continue Reading →
Conflict and Covid make these troubling times, but national leaders must cooperate and take action now At the end of February this year, the world’s governments signed on to a statement that was startling in its strength and clarity. “The cumulative scientific evidence is unequivocal: Climate change is a threat to human wellbeing and planetary... Continue Reading →
Watch part one of “The Power of Big Oil,” a three-episode FRONTLINE docuseries investigating the fossil fuel industry’s history of casting doubt and delaying action on climate change This journalism is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station here: http://www.pbs.org/donate. Go inside the decades-long failure to confront the threat and increasing... Continue Reading →
Even in a world increasingly battered by weather extremes, the summer 2021 heat wave in the Pacific Northwest stood out. For several days in late June, cities such as Vancouver, Portland and Seattle baked in record temperatures that killed hundreds of people. On June 29, Lytton, a village in British Columbia, set an all-time heat... Continue Reading →
Communicating Nature Since 1788 The Linnean Society of London is the world’s oldest active society devoted to natural history. Founded in 1788 by Sir James Edward Smith (1759–1828), who was its first President, the Society takes its name from the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) whose botanical, zoological and library collections have been in our... Continue Reading →
In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I look at why the American lawn must die. Specifically, I look at the grass lawn's history of class exploitation and settler colonialism and how that ties into the American lawn culture we see today. The lawn began in Europe as an elite status symbol that... Continue Reading →
This map does not represent or intend to represent official or legal boundaries of any Indigenous nations. To learn about definitive boundaries, contact the nations in question. Also, this map is not perfect -- it is a work in progress with tons of contributions from the community. Please send us fixes if you find errors. If you... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 