Rationality Later, Climate Change Now
Pinker begins strongly in his new book Rationality, with the point “…among our fiercest problems today is convincing people to accept the...
School Strike and School Reform
Here is my short list of topics and challenges that I hope striking students (Middle School and High School) will take on (in some cases...
Q & A from Green Community Connections
Green Community Connections is an environmental organization based in Oak Park host to the One Earth Film Festival. Green Community...
The Green New Deal - Expanding the Job List
While the Green New Deal seeks to greatly reduce US greenhouse gas emissions, it also seeks to provide millions of quality jobs. The new...
Mary Poppins Returns...and Pushes Up Our Deadline
“Trip a Little Light Fantastic” sing the merry streetlamp lighters as they dance around the posh neighborhood of the Banks family. I saw...
Dog Days at Mar-a-Lago, Salad at Mount Vernon
This essay appeared as a guest column at UNP's blog, Behind the Book, on August 20, 2018 Summertime is the traveling season and this...
Rich's Losing Earth: Missing Women
Unpublished August 8, 2018 Letter to the New York Times To the Editor, As a young researcher at Harvard’s climate change history project...
Chicagoland Climate Quiz
1. Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel can be credited with which of the following quotes: a. “..it makes a lot of sense for us to move to...
Lyme Disease and Tick Cakes
The Merry Month of May in the Mid-Atlantic USA, we are in the thick of tick season. After a long dry spell, we have been experiencing a...
DC Schools' Worst Carbon Footprint
This weekend was the biggest science event of the year for DC High School students, the annual STEM Fair. Yeah! I had a first hand view...
