In the wake of the unspeakable tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, we are all grieving. We grieve for those who lost children, parents, friends and colleagues. We don’t know what prompted the man responsible for the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting or what caused gunmen to open fire on an Oregon mall, a Colorado movie theater, or… Continue reading

Twenty years ago, with The End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about global warming. Those warnings went mostly unheeded; now, he insists, we need to acknowledge that we’ve waited too long, and that massive change is not only unavoidable but already under way. Our old familiar globe is suddenly melting,… Continue reading