Motherhood

The highlight of my summer each year is having my 2 year old grandson Oliver join me for Camp Dodi. “Dodi” means beloved in Hebrew — and I am Dodi to a few children now. It is the honor of my lifetime. Early in the morning,...

This was written by Laurence D. Wiseman, Co-Leader, Vibrant Cities Lab: Back in the days with no air conditioning and screened windows, I spent most of my summers messing around Sligo Creek – a nice chunk of nature just a couple hundred yards from my house....

“Fracturing” means breaking. A bone can fracture. So can a family or community when it’s threatened and destabilized. High Volume Hydraulic Fracturing, or “fracking” is a way to drill for natural gas in rock found deep below the earth’s surface. A well is drilled down...

The mom/middle school teacher who confronted Scott Pruitt, Kristin Mink, spoke at our Play-In for Climate Action. This is her speech: When I tell my 2-year-old to stop whining, he often doesn’t do it. So, when I walked up to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt in...

We were excited to host our 5th annual Play-In for Climate Action this week. Hundreds of parents and children from 30 states gathered near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC to call for meaningful action on climate change. This family-friendly protest against the air pollution that...