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Healing the Heat III: The Water is Worldwide

The opening scenes from Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel The Ministry for the Future have become somewhat iconic. In one, innumerable heads bob…

Sep 21, 2022

Flooded Pakistan village

Sep 21, 2022

Healing the Heat II: Leveling the Washington Roller Coaster

Hallelujah! The Senate just passed the first comprehensive climate change bill in U.S. history, restored our leadership on the global…

Aug 9, 2022

Healing the Heat II: Leveling the Washington Roller Coaster

Aug 9, 2022

Healing the Heat I: The Power of Local

I drove right into it. Heading west from Chicago on I-80 for my annual visit to my sister on the Iowa border, I entered the searing heat…

Jun 27, 2022

Healing the Heat I: The Power of Local

Jun 27, 2022

Laissez le temps chaud rouler

It’s 7:30 AM. The angled light isn’t yet glaring on the white pavement and pillars along Napoleon Avenue, and the dewy air has let go of…

May 22, 2022

Laissez le temps chaud rouler

May 22, 2022

The Youth of America on LNG

The revolutionary rock musical Hair encapsulated the angst of a generation confronting environmental degradation, racism, sexism…

May 1, 2022

The Youth of America on LNG

May 1, 2022

Overpowering Putin: Ukraine Activism Can Be Climate Activism

“I can’t think about climate change, because I can’t think about anything other than to try to survive.” These are the words of Svitlana…

Mar 13, 2022

Svitlana Krakovska at her desk in Kyiv

Mar 13, 2022

Blog to the Future: A Letter From my Great-Great-Great-Grandchild

It’s 2022, and Groundhog Day was February 2 (all those 2s!). What better time to emerge from my winter blog-free burrow and share the…

Feb 4, 2022

Punxsatawny Phil on Groundhog Day 2022

Feb 4, 2022

The Party Line

I’ve been writing this blog to chronicle my emergence as a climate crisis activist for a few months now. I’m enjoying it immensely, and I…

Oct 11, 2021

The Party Line

Oct 11, 2021

Baby You Can Drive My (electric, low emission) Car

I am being happy about climate change these days. Last week was, officially, “Climate Week” in New York City, and the U.N General Assembly…

Sep 29, 2021

Baby You Can Drive My (electric, low emission) Car

Sep 29, 2021

Taking a Breather

“Spirit” comes from the Latin word “to breathe.” What we breathe is air, which is certainly matter, however thin. Despite usage to the…

Sep 13, 2021

Taking a Breather

Sep 13, 2021

Mark Boudreau

Mark Boudreau

I’m a teaching professor of biology and researcher in agroecology at Penn State Brandywine, intent on developing my inner climate activist.

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