The Greatest Threat to Our Planet

The Greatest Threat to Our Planet

Dear Partners in Green, In 2006, Bill McKibben, a distinguished scholar at Middlebury College and leader of the climate campaign 350.org (whom I have mentioned in previous posts), wrote the book The End of Nature, one of the earliest warnings about global warming,...
What Will Be Our Response?

What Will Be Our Response?

It seems from day one, from the beginning of our awareness of the negative effects of what has been deemed to be progress, one looming concern with unmitigated climate degradation was immigration.   Today, as was predicted, more and more areas of the globe are unable...
We Are Still In the Game

We Are Still In the Game

Dear Partners in Green This morning, as I was sitting down to write another Seedling, baseball came to mind. I was thinking about the clubhouse and dugout, where a team gathers, goes over the plays, reviews strategies, cheers each other on, and ultimately runs out...
Enthusiasm

Enthusiasm

For a long time now, I have been a Ralph Waldo Emerson “enthusiast.” There is something about his views on life that just “strikes a chord” with me. I have read a great deal about him, and by him.  He is not the easiest person to read, much like other 19th-century...
What Should Be Our Response?

What Should Be Our Response?

I don’t know whether to rant or just throw my hands up in the air. What the heck! “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!” An unforgettable line from the movie “Network.” The train derailment in Ohio and the subsequent “controlled” burn reminds me...