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Infinite pools

This week marks a little over a year since I left work one evening and received a call the next day letting me know I’d be working from home for the foreseeable future. COVID-19, viewed in … more

By CAROL ROIG | 4/7/21

Weighing the costs

What began on February 9 as a 40-second conversation about approaching cold weather at a board meeting of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has turned into one of the most disastrous … more

By CAROL ROIG | 3/10/21

What leadership looks like

For the majority of American voters who understand that global warming is real (72 percent) and harmful to future generations (71 percent); who want the President and Congress to do more about it (60 … more

By CAROL ROIG | 2/10/21

Fences and neighbors

You might recall the old saying, “Good fences make good neighbors,” from studying the Robert Frost poem “Mending Wall” in school. First published in 1914, the iconic work … more

By CAROL ROIG | 1/13/21

What’s your pedal point?

A lifetime ago (early last April), I had a wonderful conversation with a new acquaintance who peppered me with questions about how our local governments are addressing climate change. He eventually … more

By CAROL ROIG | 12/9/20

There was a CCC camp at Ten Mile River in Narrowsburg. Sandy Nuttycombe’s father, Thomas Batchelor, right, was there in the mid-30s. He had good memories of his experience there, the Narrowsburg resident said. “His time at the CCC camp was positive. I don’t think there was anything negative about it.”

The spirit of service

As the calendar would have it, my deadline for this column falls on November 3, which means that I am writing in the days leading up to Election Day, but my column will appear a week later when, I … more

By CAROL ROIG | 11/11/20

We are what we breathe

How many times have I told myself to “take a deep breath” over the past four years? Actually, I do practice deep breathing to reduce stress and it often helps. But as the pandemic … more

By CAROL ROIG | 10/7/20

Safer ways to clean house

When I was a kid, one of my mother’s close friends was hospitalized after accidentally mixing bleach and ammonia while cleaning a shower stall. It was such a horrific incident that I’ve … more

By CAROL ROIG | 9/9/20 | 1 comment

More art

My husband manages to find the most extraordinary artists on Instagram. During these months when we have not been able to venture out as much as we would like, it’s been very refreshing to … more

By CAROL ROIG | 8/12/20

And justice for all

In her extraordinary documentary, “Cooked: Survival by Zip Code,” filmmaker Judith Helfand tells the story of the July 1995 heatwave that killed 739 people in Chicago. Most of the victims … more

By CAROL ROIG | 7/8/20

Dreaming green

I woke up thinking about that old armchair again. With everything that’s going on, you’d think I could let it go, but it haunts me. It came with the house 23 years ago, was probably new … more

By CAROL ROIG | 6/10/20

A new playbook

The metaphor of war has come to permeate the way we talk about the COVID-19 pandemic. It began with a justifiably heroic view of our medical personnel, underequipped and undersupplied on the front … more

By CAROL ROIG | 5/13/20

Which shall it be?

Nineteen years ago, in the months following 9/11, many publications devoted space and ink to predictions about how the attacks would change us. A few prominent commenters foresaw “the end of … more

By CAROL ROIG | 4/8/20

Optimism and the Ides of March

I have a lot of conversations about climate change, sometimes with scientists, educators or local officials but more often with engaged citizens who are just trying to figure out how we can invest … more

By CAROL ROIG | 3/11/20

Plastic never biodegrades—it just keeps breaking down into increasingly smaller pieces called microplastics that absorb a range of chemical pollutants, travel up the food chain to our plates and our drinking water, and accumulate in our bodies.

The bigger problem with plastics

By now, most New Yorkers are aware that a ban on single-use plastic bags will go into effect on Sunday, March 1. While there has been some criticism of the bill’s numerous exemptions, … more

By CAROL ROIG | 2/12/20

Seeing the light

As one of its last and perhaps most irrational deregulatory actions of 2019, the U.S. Department of Energy announced last month that it would not proceed with implementation of efficiency standards … more

By CAROL ROIG | 1/8/20

Take a deep breath

From the hilltop of Thanksgiving we toboggan through the wintry finale of the year—Hanukkah, Christmas, New Year’s. It’s an exhilarating journey for some, but for others it can … more

By CAROL ROIG | 12/11/19

No place like home

Every autumn, we button up the house in preparation for winter, trading out screens for storm-door inserts, checking for new drafts and leaky weather stripping and giving the woodstove its annual … more

By CAROL ROIG | 11/14/19

Girl power

Last year, an eight-year-old girl made headlines in Mexico for inventing a simple solar device to heat water. Her name is Xóchitl Guadalupe Cruz Lopez and she lives in Chiapas, the southern … more

By CAROL ROIG | 10/9/19

Pulling up stakes

Thirty million people live in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta and the surrounding metropolitan area. Their city has served for decades as a financial and diplomatic hub of Southeast Asia as well as … more

By CAROL ROIG | 9/11/19

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