I realize now that I was extraordinarily lucky to see Glacier when there were actual glorious glaciers. So, to me, there is no battle that makes more sense than fighting as hard as possible to protect that special space.
Tag: climate change
News Briefs: Lawsuit challenges fossil fuel approvals; local climate advocates join virtual Earth Day event
Instead of including the considerations, FERC has maintained that all downstream emissions and climate impacts are inherently unforeseeable, and has thus asserted that the climate impacts of gas infrastructure is effectively zero.
Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 37: Is it spring yet?
Yet March brings the cruelty of delayed anticipation, of yearning for signs of new beginnings, of suspension between the end of one thing and the beginning of the next.
News Brief: Lenox to hold hazard mitigation listening workshop
These goals and projects were identified through a day-long resilience building workshop held at Lenox Town Hall in November 2019, where a diverse collection of stakeholders convened to learn about the risks posed by climate change and how the community could be impacted in the not-so-distant future.
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Weather’ by Jenny Offill: ‘What happened to the flying dreams?’
The collapse of the planet in ‘Weather,’ is like Moby Dick in ‘Moby Dick,’ the actual white whale who, in Chapter 113, still hasn’t made an appearance, though his presence has shaded every word.
It’s Not That Simple: Strategic sustainability and livability
“Talking about climate change as a fact or not a fact is a tremendous distraction from what is happening. I’ve stopped using the word ‘change’ and started using ‘crisis’ because that’s more accurate.”
— Jovanina Pagano
POEM: Get Over It, Kids!
And think of it: if planet Earth is, in fact, warming
faster than ever, as some say, what’s wrong with that?
BOOK REVIEW: ‘No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference’ highlights immediacy of climate crisis
Urging patience and practicality, adults theorize about the possible devastating effects of the climate crisis. But their possible tomorrows are the nightmarish likelihood of the soon-to-be present for Greta and her generation.
Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 26: Christmas in Key West
People of every gender, color and everything in between are celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next.
Extinction Rebellion seeks to forestall climate change
I’m likely to escape the worst suffering of the climate crisis, as the planet becomes less and less hospitable to life. But like many others, I care about the next generations.
NATURE’S TURN: Gifts for the Earth and the gift giver
During this, the Long Night Moon, I compiled a list of gifts of enlightenment for readers that will, in turn, support generous gift giving to the Earth.
Alan Chartock: Saving Fire Island
As I predicated so many years ago in my science project, the Island is in grave danger. Each major storm brings with it real trouble.
A week of disturbing events
In her letter, Ruth Heuberger writes: “Young people, especially intelligent ones, can generally be relied upon to sort out peer differences with little outside interference.”
No Hong Kong, GB
With all due respect, small ideas aren’t going to cut it. Replacing single-use plastic bags from our supermarkets and replacing them with paper bags from desperately needed trees just makes some people feel better.
A teenager’s response to Friday’s protest
Disappointed by last Friday’s climate change protests, an Egremont teen suggests ways to make a more positive impact.
BCD students express determination to reverse climate change
Why Are We Striking?
Because we are hoping for change in our world. We are not striking because it is what we should do, but because it’s what we have to do. We now have no choice.
— Danny C.
Youth climate strike included arrests, street disturbances, as young and old sound the alarm about warming planet
In addition to the Simon’s Rock students, the protest included approximately 300 other people, including students from Berkshire Country Day, the Berkshire Waldorf School and Monument Mountain Regional High School.
POEM: The Hubris of Human Beings
Surges of ocean revolt
Reverence for such unleashed power
A symptom, no, outcome
Of climate change
Enrich the soil, cool the planet
Walter Jehne argues that entirely eliminating our reliance on fossil fuels is unfeasible, and that even if we did, it would not reverse the impacts of climate change. Instead, Jehne believes that regenerative agriculture and eco-restoration are the only ways to rebuild our soils, which he argues will dramatically cool the climate as well as reverse many of the symptoms of climate change.
PROFILE: Sen. Adam Hinds looks back at legislative accomplishments – and challenges
The Edge recently sat down with Hinds in his Pittsfield office to discuss his proudest accomplishments, how to align workforce development needs with the education system, and his hopes and concerns about the rollout of recreational marijuana in the state, among other things.
At BIFF ‘Dreaming of a Vetter World,’ a Nebraska farmer goes organic
“I suddenly had some questions about how our food’s being grown here in America… There’s a huge disaster going on right now that few people even know about.”
— Bonnie Hawthorne, writer and director of ‘Dreaming of a Vetter World’
Cowering under the covers
I know that there are people, lots of people, with personal problems and responsibilities, places they need to be and things they need to do just to survive. They do not have the luxury of staying in bed until their courage kicks in to face the day.
South County high school students rail against inaction during ‘youth climate strike’
The South County strike was but one that included thousands of students in Massachusetts and hundreds of thousands across the country who skipped school in order to participate, according to a news release from the Massachusetts Youth Climate Strike.
BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Uninhabitable Earth,’ a grisly, sobering look at climate change
“It is worse, much worse, than you think. The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn’t happening at all …”
CONNECTIONS: The unspeakable climate
It is interesting to contemplate that weather is blamed for the demise of the Vikings, the French Revolution and the bubonic plague. It is also interesting that the founding of this country, the creation of our Constitution, the Civil War, American industrialization and our Gilded Age all happened against a backdrop of extreme cold and global climate change.
ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage
Princeton Prof. William Happer compares carbon dioxide to Jews living during the Holocaust.
Egremont Green News: Climate activism rising all around us
You don’t have to look far for organizations pushing for solutions—there are lots of exciting opportunities to engage.
News Briefs: Volunteers sought for sustainability committee; audit recommends DA office improvements
The audit, which was requested by former District Attorney Paul Caccaviello shortly after his March 2018 appointment, provides newly sworn-in District Attorney Andrea Harrington with recommendations to address these areas.
Government shutdown prevents EPA from keeping us healthy
“We need strong leadership to strengthen, not weaken, common sense protections that benefit all of us and push a cleaner, greener economy that will simultaneously address an already changing climate.”
Poem: Conzoomerism, as the World Burns
The press is in on the consumer game,
hustling glamor, bewitched by fame.
Giving revenue to people can calm the carbon pricing angst seen in France
Late last month, a bipartisan group of lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced legislation to place a fee on carbon and allocate all revenue to households in the form of a monthly dividend.
We’ve got 12 years. What can we do?
The loss of life in every conceivable way is truly beyond imagination, and yet that is where we are heading.