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Renewable energy isn't so much a solution to climate change as it is a way to keep the lights on after we've addressed climate change. Addressing climate change is easy

That feeling of so much going the wrong way at once has to do with the interconnection of complex systems. Change feeds on itself, it gets going faster and faster.

When the pandemic began to ramp up I was concerned about the food system, including shortages. What I've learned since then is that there is a kind of ugly "resilience"

New forms are emerging quickly now - pods for schooling, pods in general, work from home, etc. More will be coming, I expect, as more institutions and organizations falter under

In first grade I had a snow white lunch box with a matching thermos with a glass liner and someone told me that if I dropped the thermos there might

I am really afraid that a country which didn't prioritize keeping school children safe from gun violence won't prioritize finding ways to keep them protected from a virus, but still

Sometimes I imagine a world we've designed to bring out the best in ourselves and in each other. I imagine governing systems where the kindest, most thoughtful, most reflective people

It's easier to stop a pandemic before it starts than to fix it once it's out of control.It's easier to protect a species than bring it back from the edge

Faith in the future part one. High confidence that, come high summer this will be a long row of green beans upon which we will feast and fill the dryer

Today I passed a sign for a "Sarah's drive by bridal shower" (how does that work?) one for a drive in church service (set your radio to such and such

Here's something that makes me mad. How did the word efficiency get so poorly defined? I'd like 'efficiency' back. It's a good word. It doesn't actually mean producing the most

What's something you can imagine ten years from now that would be a leading indicator that our current moment of crisis was the start of a just transition? Not a