As we make our way toward Christmas and some of us consider how we can refashion our lives so as to better conform with the teachings of Jesus, it’s worth noting what Harriet Beecher Stowe said here. Unbridled capitalism has …
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Inaction and Regret
Abolitionist and author Harriet Beecher Stowe left us with this: “The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.” Of course this applies to our private lives, where we may regret not saying something …
The Terrifying Warning Lurking in the Earth’s Ancient Rock Record
The Atlantic was founded in 1857, primarily to forward the abolition of slavery, by a team of intellectuals that included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Greenleaf Whittier, and now features articles on a variety …
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You Are Changing the World in Ways You May Not See
Cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead is perhaps best known for what she said about social progress: Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. There are many …
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We All Make a Far Greater Difference Than We Can Possibly Know
It’s heartening to look through the comments to my recent post: “The Environmental Movement: Too Conciliatory?” — insofar as many point out the role of the individual in determining the course of history. We have FAR greater capacity to change …
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We All Wield Tremendous Power to Restore Environmental Justice
I wrote a post recently in which I mentioned the Black Swan effect, i.e., the tendency of human beings to underestimate the importance and frequency of unforeseeable events in the future. This concept, popularized by Nassim Taleb in his 2007 …
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We Have the Power to Overcome the Challenges Humankind Faces
I write often about the daunting number of challenges that humankind faces vis-à-vis sustainability, and note that many of them are rooted in our approach to energy: climate change/desertification, ocean acidification, loss of bio-diversity, water and food shortages, skyrocketing rates …
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Hope, Activism, and Climate Change
2GreenEnergy supporter Cameron Atwood sent me this incredible, wide-ranging article by political activist Rebecca Solnit. Its theme is critically important to people trying to making sense of our modern world – and especially to those of us trying to change …
