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Dear Labor, WTF?

by Miriam Axel-Lute February 28, 2013

To “Big Labor,” especially the AFL-CIO, from the diverse and rapidly growing climate change movement: So the past few years have been going pretty well for you and us, we thought. We got your back in ...

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I Am Thanksome

by Miriam Axel-Lute November 20, 2012

This year we’ve instituted what seems likely to become a yearly tradition of a Thanksgiving tree. It’s taped on the wall of our front stairs, trunk and branches made out of brown paper. Each day, ...

For Earth’s Sake

by Marc Maximov November 16, 2012

With the election over and the northeastern United States still drying its socks from the latest semiannual “storm of the century,” author, activist and Vermont resident Bill McKibben has been girding for battle. The day ...

Mandate! Now, For What?

by Miriam Axel-Lute November 8, 2012

It’s the demographics, stupid. Also the economy. And climate change. And women’s rights. Tuesday was a rout. It was more of a rout than the numbers and the results show, because let’s remember that the progressive ...

A Little Child Shall Lead Them

by Shawn Stone August 1, 2012

“You know, when you’re little, you have more endurance than God is ever to grant you again. Children are man at his strongest. They abide.” Lillian Gish spoke those lines in The Night of the Hunter, ...

No, Really. Read It

by Miriam Axel-Lute August 1, 2012

When people started passing around Bill McKibben’s recent article in Rolling Stone called “Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math,” I didn’t click through. Not even when it was my wife recommending it. I wouldn’t be surprised if ...

We’ll See Irene Again

by Miriam Axel-Lute August 31, 2011

I used to quip that here in the Northeast, our natural disaster danger was Lyme disease. I guess that line gets retired as of this year. Especially since our region and our neighboring regions are focused ...

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