Climate Change

How does climate change directly affect you and the people you love? There’s been a lot in the news lately about the ways climate change may impact people globally. While extreme weather events and rising sea levels are capturing the headlines, a warming planet can...

The UN climate agreement finalized in Paris over the weekend comes just in time for the holiday season. This historic moment feels like a gift for my children, adding a warm light to the darkest time of the year. No, it’s not enough. The pollution...

I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about the food my family eats. I think about where it comes from, who grew it, if they had a living wage. I think about pesticides, fertilizers, soil, manufacturing processes, certifications, genetically-modified ingredients. I think about outdoor...

In the past two decades we’ve let our children steadily retreat from spending time outside in nature. Today, kids spend half the time outdoors as they did in the early 1990s, with just 6 percent of preteen kids spending time outside on their own. Instead,...

I’m hopeful. Not by nature. But because I have no choice but to believe that eventually we will do what is right, and what is necessary, to save ourselves. I’m too old to give in to despair. And, I’m old enough to be welcoming my...