Patagonia's founder gave the business and its profits to fight climate change.

Now Ruth is gone and ruthlessness remains. How will we fight for our right to an abortion?

“If the cement industry were a country, it would be the third largest emitter in the world– behind China and the US.” Motivated by...

I knew the fear-begotten arms race and I grew up together. Now all these years later, my father is holding an exploding bombshell out to me.

Published in Ground Zero, October 2021. “We keep threatening to unleash these bombs... Most of us have forgotten what we're capable of."

A “conversation”: J. Robert Oppenheimer's report on nuclear effects and Setsuko Thurlow’s Nobel Peace Prize speech on abolishing nukes

How I and the other 7 billion of us on the planet now can prevent the worst effects of climate change.

I began musing here about growing older with an untested sense of optimism. I have a fresh appreciation for how hard that is.

March 11, 2011: Fukushima nuclear plant systems detected an earthquake. The reactors automatically shut down and emergency diesel...

2020 reminds me of the extended, dissonant orchestral ascent of Lennon/McCartney’s A Day in the Life.