MIT Carbon Footprint Exercise
For this multi sector estimate of annual emissions for a Massachusetts resident ,please use the USA EPA emission factor hub and the...
Ian McEwan: Okay Boomer!
Given that Ian McEwan is my favorite novelist, I usually want to extend the reading experience once I’m finished with a quick look at the...
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...
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Unpublished August 8, 2018 Letter to the New York Times To the Editor, As a young researcher at Harvard’s climate change history project...
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...
Enlightenment Now, Climate Change Later
I always find Steven Pinker’s books to be a great read, witty and thought-provoking. His latest book, Enlightenment Now, is no exception....