Scott Bates, cheerleading for solar power and electric cars.
Scott Bates’s ABC of Radical Ecology calls for us to keep fighting to save the environment.
Rightwing attacks on Obama for including novels in his summer reading are all wrong. We want our presidents to be balanced and grounded, and good fiction helps one remember what is really important in life.
Posted in Franzen (Jonathan), Huxley (Aldous), Verghese (Abraham) | Also tagged Abraham Verghese, Aldous Huxley, Barack Obama, Brave New World, Cutting for Stone, Freedom, Jonathan Franzen, politics, Reading lists |
I’ve been thinking recently about how every Shakespearean tragedy concludes with a restoration of order. The stage may be strewn with corpses and the spectator’s heart may have broken into a thousand little pieces, but (as though to provide some reassurance) someone steps forward at the end to set things straight. In Hamlet it is [...]
As oil continues to gush unabated into the Gulf of Mexico and as blame (never self blame) gushes from the mouths of company executives in Congressional hearings, we start to see more clearly the results of Dick Cheney’s attacks on oil company regulation. We are at a strange juncture with nature. On the one hand, I [...]
Just days after celebrating the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, we experienced the greatest oil spill in U.S. history. And it is still going on! I can’t begin to express how discouraged I am about the news. I have boycotted Exxon since the Valdez tanker spill fouled the Alaskan coast in 1989, and here we [...]
