Child Labor in the Democratic Republic of Congo “Accumulate, accumulate! That is Moses and the prophets!… Accumulation…
Solidarity with Resistance to Extraction
By: Don Fitz and the Green Party of St. Louis
Resisting Line 3, Enbridge Pipeline People the world over are opposing fossil fuel extraction in an incalculable number of ways. It is now clear that…
Getting From Here to There
By: Mike Nickerson
Photo by: Robert Collins. To secure the future we need to reduce resource exploitation and pollution by reducing consumption. Belt…
What Would a Deep Green New Deal Look Like?
By: Don Fitz
Drawing by Priti Cox. The Green New Deal has attracted perhaps the greatest attention of any proposal for decades. It would guarantee Medicare-for-All, Housing-for-All, student…
A Dark Earth Day
By: Priti Gulati Cox
A Dark Earth Day The ‘New Deal’ part of the Green New Deal is mostly good and necessary. But the ‘Green’ part has a big hole…
Earth Abuse, Greenhouse Warming, and the Next Pandemic
By: Stan Cox
Humanity’s transgression of ecological limits has caused widespread damage, including a climate emergency, catastrophic loss of biodiversity, and extensive degradation of soils around the world.…
Basic needs, electrified: What we expect from electricity
By: Katie Singer
Dear Ecologists, Once energy became abundantly available, the way we humans think about our daily lives changed radically. Electric appliances freed us from heating our…
How we manufacture silicon: computers’ crucial ingredient not found in nature
By: Katie Singer
Dear Ecologists, Could we discuss silicon, that substance on which our digital world depends? [1] Silicon is a semiconductor, and tiny electronic switches called transistors…
A geek researches 5G and discovers how he contributes to climate chang
By: Miguel Coma and Katie Singer
Letter #4 A geek researches 5G and discovers how he contributes to climate change a letter to Greta Thunburg by Miguel Coma Dear Greta, Last…
Nuclear Fuel Buried 108 Feet from the Sea
By: Robert Hunziker
“The most toxic substance on Earth is separated from exposure to society by ½” of steel encased in a canister.” (Blanch) That eye-opener comes from…