mixed greens

The great ‘what if?’

I love a good mystery story, especially one that reveals real-life secrets of the natural world. One of my favorite examples is a story I first encountered almost a decade ago. Driving home through …

What I learned from my neighbors

More than 20 years ago, I attended my first town “visioning” workshop in the Upper Delaware. To kick off the conversation, we were asked to share what we found special about our lives in the …

But tell me what you really think

This past January, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island began calling out fellow Democrats he dubbed “climate hushers,” colleagues who have retreated from the public discussion of climate …

Prevailing winds

News of the near-demise of wind energy in the U.S. turns out to be seriously premature, but not for lack of trying. The Trump administration has made no secret of its disdain for renewable energy in …

Ill winds

You probably won’t believe this, but every month I search for good news to bring you from the “green” front. This month I had found something a bit cheering, but sometimes a silver lining …

And another thing

ENIAC, the world’s first programmable electronic general-purpose digital computer, was built at the University of Pennsylvania in 1945. Originally designed to calculate complex artillery firing …