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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…

7 min readSep 21, 2022

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Flooded Pakistan village

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Mark Boudreau

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…

6 min readAug 9, 2022

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Healing the Heat II: Leveling the Washington Roller Coaster

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Mark Boudreau

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…

8 min readJun 27, 2022

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Healing the Heat I: The Power of Local

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Mark Boudreau

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…

6 min readMay 22, 2022

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Laissez le temps chaud rouler

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Mark Boudreau

The Youth of America on LNG

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

7 min readMay 1, 2022

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The Youth of America on LNG

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Mark Boudreau

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…

5 min readMar 13, 2022

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Svitlana Krakovska at her desk in Kyiv

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Mark Boudreau

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…

5 min readFeb 4, 2022

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Punxsatawny Phil on Groundhog Day 2022

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Mark Boudreau

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…

7 min readOct 11, 2021

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The Party Line

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Mark Boudreau

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…

7 min readSep 29, 2021

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

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Mark Boudreau

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…

7 min readSep 13, 2021

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Taking a Breather

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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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