Yearly Archives: 2021
A guide to your digital carbon footprint – and how to lower it
As we accommodate our new digital reality, take a few steps to lower the impact of your devices and digital presence.
Indigenous resistance rising as Thanksgiving turns 400
Native communities are resilient, organized, and rising up.
Black Friday: Retailers are forcing our heads into the sand to avoid facing climate...
There is now a growing acceptance that sustainability is not simply a matter of consumers’ individual accountability and choice.
All 3 men found guilty of murdering Ahmaud Arbery
“It’s been a long fight. It’s been a hard fight, but God is good… I never thought this day would come, but God is good, and I just want to tell everybody thank you, thank you for those who marched, those who prayed.”
How the Build Back Better bill will help millions of Americans with hearing impairments...
“It’s not just about the elderly. Hearing loss doesn’t magically happen in old age. It gradually occurs over years and years. It’s something that could be prevented.”
Can you bankrupt white supremacy? Jury holds Charlottesville organizers liable for $26m in damages
It’s inevitably a one-sided trial when “the McMichaels are the only ones [surviving] that get to claim they’re scared.”
Sociology can help the climate crisis
Climate change is caused by people acting in groups, after all, and sociology is the study of people acting in groups.
In the latest round of budgetary chess, Progressive caucus leader Jayapal played a shrewd...
The Seattle Democrat has been willing to take the heat to secure a down payment on an agenda for economic equity and sustainability.
The West’s wasted crisis
A year that began hopefully is ending grimly. Western political elites, unable (and perhaps unwilling) to turn a deadly pandemic and climate crisis into a life-preserving opportunity, have only themselves to blame.
Blowing up a few myths about inflation
Are we currently on the cusp of runaway inflation or not?