They didn’t get much press—the 15,000 or so people who gathered last April in Cochabamba, Bolivia, for a different kind of climate gathering. Discouraged by what the world “leaders” failed to accomplish last December at the UN meeting in Copenhagen, … Read More…
This Thanksgiving weekend is a good time to thank the Earth for providing all our food. Because the trees, the plants, the crops are listening . . . Emigdio Ballon, a Quechua man from Bolivia, is an agronomist and plant … Read More…
I’ve fallen in love all over again with the native grasses of the prairie. Four autumns in Colorado, and every year I think they must be getting more stunning. … Read More…
At the Online News Association meeting in DC over the weekend, one of the early sessions, hosted by Alicia Shepard of NPR, was “No Comment: Rethinking Online Commentary.” No surprise—news sites everywhere are grappling with the climate of vicious comments … Read More…
In a word, it’s nasty. I knew this from scanning news stories on media sites, but I got a firsthand dose when the Boulder Daily Camera posted online their article and video about my take on the old ponderosa pine … Read More…
Most Americans have the luxury of believing that the effects of climate change lie in the future. After all, our houses are not crumbling into melting permafrost, as in Alaska, or the rising sea, as in the Maldives. We have … Read More…
While the Fourmile Fire was still burning, I started hunting through my photos. The fire was advancing toward—maybe had already passed through—Bald Mountain. Where were my photos of the ancient tree on its western slope? Just the day before the … Read More…