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 month thousands of tourists are visiting the places I describe in my book, The Five-Ton Life. These are low carbon communities that happen to have a unique place in American history and look just great. Myself, this time of year, I am more likely to visit the opposite extreme of The Five-Ton Life, maybe the mansions in Newport Rhode Island or,
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Unpublished August 8, 2018 Letter to the New York Times To the Editor, As a young researcher at Harvard’s climate change history project convened at the JFK School in the summer of 1989, many of the scientists and advocates in Nathaniel Rich’s article, “Losing Earth,” were familiar to me. At that time, the efforts of James Hansen, Gordon MacDonald, and Rafe Pomerance stood out, but I know that among the important actors were a number of women, none of whom received the least
