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Brief glances of understanding

In numerous folk traditions, mid-winter is marked by uncanny goings-on, including the legend that animals can talk at midnight on Christmas Eve. What they reveal during this magical time can be benevolent or foreboding, depending on the storyteller.

A sacred trust

Residents of St. James Parish in Louisiana have something special to be thankful for this year: last month, state judge Trudy White vacated the 15 air permits the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) had approved for a mammoth plastics manufacturing complex planned for a 2,400 acre tract in the town of Welcome, in the notorious 80-mile Mississippi River corridor between New Orleans and Baton Rouge known as “Cancer Alley.”

Green slime

I feel like I’m drowning in greenwash, those empty promises and distracting technological detours designed to lull us into the illusion that we can go on doing the same things but get a different climate result.

The not-so-temperate zone

Hot weather is in the news, partly because so many areas of the U.S. are experiencing record and prolonged heat, and also because we are learning more about just how dangerous extremely hot weather can be.

Greening healthcare

As often as I have railed against the proliferation of plastic materials in our lives, I have always made an exception about medical products and devices. For one thing, as someone with absolutely no …