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Dayton, Ohio, had one of the highest overdose death rates in the nation in 2017. The city made many changes, and fatal overdoses are down more than 50 percent from last year.
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Researchers set up a special lab to measure gaming’s massive carbon footprint.
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At a world gathering on climate change this weekend, nations will face a key political test: whether they can transcend the narrowness of nationalism in favor of cooperation. All eyes will be on the US and China.
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Scientific scrutiny of pesticide residue in food grows – regulatory protections are being questioned.
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In Martin County, Kentucky, residents are paying steep prices for water that sometimes comes out of the tap brown and foul-smelling—that is, when it comes out at all.
read moreThe Tax-Code Shift That’s Chan...
Nonprofit groups that used to focus their energies on litigation and education are structuring themselves to be political players.
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We live in an ecosystem where plants and animals depend upon one another for survival.
read moreEcological Design Book Extract
In many ways, the environmental crisis is a design crisis. It is a consequence of how things are made, buildings are constructed, and landscapes are used.
read moreBlue Wave, Red Town
How my middle school guidance counselor became the first Democratic state representative elected in Bedford, New Hampshire, since 1934.
read moreKnowledge, Ignorance and Clima...
Philosophers have been talking about skepticism for a long time. Some of those insights can shed light on our public discourse regarding climate change.
read moreThoreau on Nature as Prayer
Walt Whitman saw trees — “so innocent and harmless, yet so savage” — as a wellspring of wisdom on being rather than seeming.
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In a massive new report, federal scientists contradict President Trump and assert that climate change is an intensifying danger to the United States. Too bad it came out on a holiday.
read moreGiving Thanks in Time of Fire
Settling into my airplane seat on the next leg of a long business trip, I heard a man say to his seat companion behind me, “I am so happy we live here.
read moreA Poem from Trudy
This poem, Thanks, from W. S. Merwin, reminds me of the
last lines of Leonard Cohen’s song, Hallelujah
NYC plans to cut its biggest s...
New York City, already a relatively sustainable town, could reach new green heights if a certain city lawmaker has his way.
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The trash and toxic runoff are bad enough. They are killing off the tribe’s local fish population and medicinal plants.
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A recently published study has found that “[c]limate change and human activity are dooming species at an unprecedented rate.”
read moreSteven Pinker Thinks the Futur...
The Harvard psychologist says he is no starry-eyed optimist. It’s just that the data don’t lie.
read moreTrump’s Military Deployment to...
Donald Trump’s decision to send thousands of troops to the US-Mexican border to intercept migrants who intend to apply for asylum is not just a bald-faced political stunt — it is also illegal.
read moreA Letter on Loyalty, Agency, U...
This is not intended to persuade or to convince, it is my voice and my experience and my truth.
read moreTrump’s Defense Spending...
Using a time-honored trick, a bipartisan congressional panel argues we should boost the president’s record defense bill even more
read moreClimate change on track to mak...
Insurance giant IAG has warned a failure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions could result in a world that is “pretty much uninsurable”, with poorer communities likely to bear the brunt of the effects.
read moreAgenda 21? The Plan To Depopul...
The United Nations for some people conjure up images of a benevolent organization intended for the preservation of human life wherever conflict occurs, and of encouraging international cooperation and peace.
read moreHow Plato Foresaw Facebook’s F...
Technology promises to make easy things that, by their intrinsic nature, have to be hard.
read moreThe Dangerous Naïveté of Trump...
The United States and China may be on a collision course yet their presidents each underestimate the pain the other could inflict.
read moreMigration roils global politic...
Never before have so many people – 70 million – been forcibly displaced from their homes. Millions more have chosen to leave in search of a better life. And traditional politics have been thrown into disarray.
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