A PHILOSOPHY FOR CLIMATE GRIEF Dear Friends, There is so much downheartedness in reading the news about climate disasters, ecosystem collapse, and species destruction that Inside Two Bubbles: Some Thoughts on Jonathan Coe’s Middle England On the night after the first Trump Impeachment Hearing, I picked up Jonathan Coe’s 2018 Middle England. It is The Joy of Nature Writing In a time when species are declining, oceans are rising, and our whole planet is threatened by global warming, we MICE AT THE COTTAGE Mouse Menace Every spring, when I arrive at my northwestern Michigan cottage, I have to roust dozens of deer Taking the Acela As I get older, I sometimes treat myself to an upgrade when I travel— a slightly better (though far from Catching the Midnight Sleeper “You went to Washington how? By train? I didn’t know people still did that,” my friends often ask, to which Planes, Trains, and Carbon Shame I consider myself the last person to eco-boss my friends around. I don’t like it when greener-than thou people chide me for Birding by Ear I was walking along a path in Michigan’s Ludington State Park when I came across a couple leaning close to Being in Nature I have a Twitter account but, far from engaging in embittered political crosstalk, I enjoy it for some weird little Our Planet As Our Commons I am fascinated by the way, throughout most of our historical development, we human beings have found ways to share our resources for the common A DREAM OF TOADS We have had such a hard, hard winter – not piles and piles of snow, but cold and wet and MAKING THE POLITICAL SAUSAGE: ORGANIZING FOR POLITICAL SUCCESS With thanks to Cousin Sarah for her home made sausage photo “What’s needed now is research on tactics and strategies The Citizen Scientist in Winter Are you concerned with our environment but are not a political joiner? Do you love nature and want to learn It Is 2034, and Trump is Still President! "And was Jerusalem builded here, among these dark Satanic Mills," queried poet William Blake in dismay at the destruction that Socrates and Me When I was getting ready for college, I expected that everyone would be sitting around under the trees discussing Plato. Is Age “Just a Number” A Gerontologist was helping me register at the Gerontological Association Convention in Boston. "I'm 81," I remarked. "Don't you know," Wild Speculations and Ruptured Paradigms Last summer I wrote an essay about whether climate warming will cause the extinction of the human species, so when I came across an Red Bees, Blue Bees Red Bees Henry David Thoreau felt that he would become “the laughing stock of the scientific community” if he tried On the Joy of Natural Curiosity You would think that when I am at my river cottage in Northern Michigan I would sit back, close my eyes, and relax. I have Climate Change and the Conundrum of Human Survival I have discovered that many creatures have already adapted to climate warming - I just read about a bird population in an « Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … 7 Next »
