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Climate Collapse

Moving Pictures: Pandora Lives in “Avatar: The Way of Water”

12 years after the first movie, "Avatar: The Water of Water" is showing audiences what actions movies dream of being.

200 Gathered in Grant Park Calling for Environmental Action

“this needs to stop now or else it will be ‘game over for the planet,’ as they say.”

The Rights of Spring

Lament for Winter in Three Parts


In the Rocky Mountains, the winter fades and the affair between the skier and the snows begins to disintegrate. The rising temperatures initiate a mourning process — an annual “auf wiedersehen” to the chill and the winter storms. To go on about the seasonal shift would be to beat a beast long dead, but many are starting to speak to the loss of winter on a general, more macro level. This notion of ‘world warming’ (to throw a wrench in an overused phrase) is getting realer. If these balmy winters keep up, we may have to find new uses for our merino wool.