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An Unlikely Environmental Evangelist
There were two reasons, many years ago, why I ended up choosing literature as my field of study rather than environmental studies or law. I was turned off from environmental studies, my initial choice...
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Silent Spring Dawns Hot, Dry and Merciless
This week, turning the corner into the astronomical Spring, we have gone abruptly from warm winter to hot summer. And I mean hot: it was 84 degrees Farenheit in western Massachusetts today, brightly...
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If I had been asked to speak at Commencement….
This is what I would have said: It’s become a cliché to say that every day is the first day of the rest of your life, and yet like most clichés this one holds truth to it. When you walk down that aisle...
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A Prayer to Mother Earth
In an emotional speech this week, the President Rafael Correa of Ecuador announced that he would be opening more of the country’s pristine Amazon rain forest to oil drilling, cancelling an earlier...
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The Civilization We Grew Up In Is Already Dead. So now what?
“If we want to learn how to live in the Anthropocene, we must first learn how to die.” This is the last line in a fine essay by Roy Scranton, former U.S. soldier and currently a doctoral candidate in...
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