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Climate Crisis
12 Simple Ways to Celebrate Earth Day Every Day
Take one or more of these simple 12 actions this Earth Day—and every day! As you help heal the planet, you will benefit personally.
Greed Flushes the Earth’s Lungs Down the Toilet
During a climate crisis, industry continues to clear-cut the carbon-sequestering boreal forest in Canada to make toilet paper. What to do.
Plastic Is Fossil Fuel: How to Get Off the Stuff
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the recent IPCC report both show the need to get off fossil fuels. Plastic is fossil fuel in another form.
5 Alternatives to Fast Flowers This Valentine’s Day
Most Valentine’s Day flowers in the US travel thousands of miles in refrigerated holds, burning fossil fuels. Here are some rosy alternatives.
How to Reduce Pollutants in the Kitchen with Induction Cooking
Gas cooking consumes climate-heating gas and fills homes with pollutants similar to what a car’s tailpipe emits. Induction cooking does not.
We Need to Talk About Our Demand Chain Crisis
We keep hearing about the supply chain disruption in the news media but need to address what drives our supply chain: unsustainable demand.
No Time to Waste: An Easy and Even Fun Way to Push Our Reps on Climate
Please join me for an online action party on August 31st. We’ll contact our Members of Congress to urge them to take bold action on climate.
Books and More for Coping With IPCC-Assessment-Induced Ecoanxiety
If you feel overwhelmed or doomed in light of the IPCC climate assessment released this week, these books and media picks can help.
15 Easy Ways to Conserve Water in Your Kitchen and on Your Plate
Directly conserve water flowing out of your kitchen taps and indirectly conserve it on the farm by considering how and where your food grows.
Do Individual Actions Matter?
You’ve no doubt heard the argument: Individual actions don’t matter, only collective action does. Must we choose one or the other?
8 Reasons to Be Cautiously Optimistic about the Environment in 2021
Despite the fact that although 2020 has ended and the chaos has not, we have reason to be more optimistic about the environment in 2021.
Lazy, Experimental, Give-It-a-Whirl Gardening
If Covid disrupted the food supply chain, imagine what more extreme weather will do. Now’s a good time to start a garden.
Simple Meals That Won’t Heat the Kitchen During a Heat Wave
Record heat and rolling blackouts. The show (or dinner) must still go on. These ideas will satisfy your appetite without heating up the kitchen.
How to Keep Caring
Asking the question, “How do I keep caring?” shows not that we don’t care about the planet but that we may not be caring adequately for ourselves.