Oil and Gas companies have known about the climate impacts of burning fossil fules since the 1950s

Denial and Greenwashing_ The Legacy of Oil and Gas Comoanies - 01 Start

Midi Chopin Piano

Chopin

The group of 7 nations pledges to phase out "unabated coal" by 2035. Or at least as fast as possible.

G7 Pledge to Phasie Out Coal by 2035

New SEC rules counter the rise in “greenhushing,” or hiding climate risk disclosures to investors and the public.

Greenhushusing: Hiding Climate-Risk Disclosure is on the Rise

In A City on Mars, authors Kelly and Zach Weinersmith illuminate the reality of "colonizing" space and why there's no place like home.

A City on Mars

By overturning the Chevron Doctrine, the US Supreme court rejects decades of precedent, imperiling hard-won environmental protections. 

The End of the Chevron Doctrine_ SCOTUS Ushers In Environmental Deregulation(2)

What a medical crisis teaches us about individual healing and Solastalgia.

Healing and Solastalgia Final

A board tape from a December 2019 performance of Beach Blanket Babylon

BBB Christmas Remembered December 2019

We should all sing the Blues, for these are the days of fear and loathing, but we can buck the trend. We can find courage against the fear and compassion rather than loathing. 

Easier said than done. 

We live in a scary, at times utterly unkind world. One that appears increasingly untethered to a sense of rational thought, a connection to the rest of the planet, and each other.

In a world gone mad, mental health suffers. People cower under the weight of despair, rage, or fear, or loneliness, or isolation.  Conversely, awareness increases. The idea that seeking counsel is a source of strength, not a sign of weakness. 

Resisting and countering all those forces I alluded to at the outset will naturally inspire fear, anger, rage, and even despair. Our job as conscious, caring citizens and human beings is to seek a healthy mental state in order to meet the challenge. 

Human, heal thyself. Be thus in the world and see what happens next. 

Be well, be brave, and be kind.

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.
T.S. Elliott

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A conversation with Kelly Ramsey, author of "Wildfire Days: a Woman, a Hotshot Crew, and the Burning of the American West. 

Wildfire Days: A Conversation with Author Kelly Ramsey

Tom is a freelance journalist and media producer focused on social and environmental issues

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