Ecological Disaster

” The most remarkable feature of this historical moment on Earth is not that we are on the way to destroying the world- we’ve actually been on the way for quite a while. It is that we are beginning to wake up, as from a millennia-long sleep, to a whole new relationship to our world…

I just went to CVS to get D batteries for my flashlight, but they were all sold out. Bostonians are getting ready for Hurricane Sandy, and Governor Patrick has declared a state of emergency.  It’s always a challenge to separate hype from reality, but Sandy has been described as potentially a “Frankenstorm”, because of the unusual…

A week or so ago I was cleaning up the kitchen early on a Sunday morning with the radio playing in the background, when my attention was riveted by a voice on NPR’s environmental program, “Living on Earth”. The voice belonged to the visionary Japanese-Canadian elder statesman Dr. David Suzuki. Dr. Suzuki is a broadcaster, genetics…

Have you recently noticed two very bright large stars close together soon after sunset in the western sky? These are the two brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter. They approached each other for the past two weeks, then passed one another on March 13, and are now separating, as Venus continues to climb higher in the…

Koyaanisisqatsi is a Hopi Indian word that is translated as “life of moral corruption and turmoil” or ” a state of life that calls for another way of living”. It is the title of a cult movie directed by Godfrey Reggio from the early 80’s, that made a big impression on me when I was still young. It’s…