What if, in our nation, there was no fossil fuel soot? (Hang onto that thought.) “Soot.” So blunt and primitive, the word is just right for the dark, greasy and pernicious thing it represents. The word time-travels us back to the dawn of the industrial age and...
Most of us have probably seen illustrations by MC Escher, the ones that seem to turn inside out and back again right before your eyes. We become mesmerized and puzzled by the effect. I was reminded of these illustrations over the past few weeks as I read the many,...
This article first published in the July 16, 2022, edition of the Petoskey News Review. In a landmark decision on June 30, the U.S. Supreme Court endangered our climate future by siding with fossil fuel interests. In their ruling, the court’s six conservative justices...
Dramatic progress in our nation has always sprung from the same well: our people and our communities. Always. We see that today in the push for a clean energy transition. Despite endless obstructionism at the state and federal levels, our families and our communities...
On the eve of my departure for the global climate conference, COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, I sat around the dinner table with my two uncles, grandmother, and grandfather to relish in a home-cooked Italian meal. It was a typical gathering at Nonna’s house in Farmington...
Above photo: One of 70 speakers at the Michigan Climate & Clean Energy Summit, Bryan Lewis, executive director of EcoWorks, shared thoughts on the panel session "Cities and Communities Leading on Climate." It seems that with each passing week we read of yet...