On the road ahead, comfort, security and meaning will no longer be determined by ownership, but by membership in a robust community that can provide mutual aid in tough times.
This spill will mark the time we started to learn about ecocide; a turning point in our realization that our industrial, carbon-dependent way of life cannot last.
Imagine a land where white, patriarchal, religiously zealous, Tea Party-type patriots rule. It's called Utah, and what happens here should terrify you.
A dirty little secret about America is that public libraries have become de facto daytime shelters for the nation's street people while librarians are increasingly our unofficial social workers for the homeless and mentally disturbed.
As long as we're talking about ice in distant climes, global warming seems like something that's happening elsewhere and to somebody else -- or some other set of creatures.
Recognizing that predation is an all-important ecological process that ties extensive food webs together is one thing. Creating the conditions on the land to let it happen is another.
Though efforts to preserve the environment have often been piecemeal, something for 'do-gooders,' a growing movement suggests that a wholesale 'reconnection' is needed to save both the environment and humanity.
In backroom deals, the administration attempts to 'serve up' millions of acres of wilderness to industry. Citizens, members of congress, and even some governors are fightin' mad.
