Environment • Human Rights • Social Justice and Equity
The Interview: Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here
David Marchese
The New York Times (Gift)
"I get so tired of the idea that progressives have gone too far in asserting that every human being deserves human rights when people are being shot in the streets of Minneapolis."
Environment • Personal Resilience • Science
When Love Thy Neighbor Is a Cry of Resistance
Rebecca Solnit
Meditations in an Emergency
At the very heart of almost all our crises is a conflict between two worldviews, the worldview in which everything is connected and the world of isolated individualism, of social darwinism and the war of each against each.
Environment • Science
Trump’s Anti-Green Agenda Could Lead to 1.3 Million More Climate Deaths
Sharon Lerner
ProPublica
Most of the people expected to suffer these temperature-related deaths live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat from climate change.
Environment • Global • Science • Social Justice and Equity
Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91
Nell Greenfieldboyce
NPR
British primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall's decades of research on chimpanzees in the wild changed perceptions of relations between humans and animals.
Environment • Human Rights • Recommended • Safety • Science
The Future Is Coming and It’s (Literally) Sunny: Notes on the Solar Revolution
Rebecca Solnit
Meditations in an Emergency
Renewables are the future and they're inevitable; the one question is whether we'll make the transition swiftly enough to forestall the worst of climate change.
Environment • Fascism • Financial • Health • Personal Resilience • Recommended • Science • Social Justice and Equity • Technology
Hostile Takeover
Kenny Ausubel
Bioneers
At this hinge moment when the climate emergency demands an immediate systemic civilizational overhaul, this retrograde counter-revolution is working to drill, baby, drill, make feudalism great again, and colonize Mars.
Recommended
- 02/18/2026
The Prairieland 19 Case is a Test for Criminalizing Dissent
Nine members of the “Prairieland 19,” anti-ICE protesters in Texas who the Trump administration is dubiously accusing of domestic terrorism, are going on trial this week. The case is a test for how easily Trump might criminalize dissent going forward.
- 02/12/2026
War is 100% “America” and Michigan Wants its Fair Share
Questioning war and why we fight is imperative. It will require a courageous confrontation with a powerful taboo, a palpable force field that snarls and growls. But this is the end of the line. War at this scale is ecocide, a death wish.





