One of my life rules is very simple, but not always easy to follow: Just Show Up. Being present — at a friend’s celebration, at a memorial, at a lecture — matters so much, even though many things get in the way, whether scheduling conflicts...

Frankenstorm. Hurricane. Superstorm. Whatever you want to call it, Sandy, the extreme weather event that struck the east coast of the U.S. exactly a year ago this week, drove home the devastating impact climate change is having on us and our communities. Disaster and Devastation...

The Halloween season brought frightening images from China last week, as a “Smog Day” kept children inside their homes and away from school in Harbin, a city of 11 million people. Smog basically shut down the city because of dangerous levels of particulate pollution in...

Right now, the Environmental Protection Agency is listening. EPA has set up listening sessions around the country to hear – from you – what it should do about our changing climate. In these sessions, EPA is trying to “solicit ideas and input from the public...