By Damon Orion Author, journalist, and child advocacy expert Richard Louv famously coined the term “nature deficit disorder” to describe the detrimental effects of children’s disconnection from nature. His assertions are backed by data that…
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But LA’s Covid Mask Organizers Have It Covered Angelenos are stepping in to make sure their communities can breathe. By Julia Métraux Los Angeles has been hit with its worst-ever wildfires, which continue to blaze,…
Commentary by Yasha Levine Lynda and Stewart Resnick—the oligarch pistachio farmers of Beverly Hills—are currently going viral. Influencers are out making tiktoks, tweets, and reels. They’re outraged at finding out that one Los Angeles billionaire…
Commentary by Pradnya Garud A fault line runs between labor and environmental movements, or so we’re told. Labor unions have been criticized for focusing on jobs without considering environmental consequences, with some unions supporting controversial…
An Interview with Gayle McLaughlin By Steve Early for Green Social Thought Former Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin has one of the best municipal election success rates of any left-wing “elected” in California—as in five city…
By Luis Feliz Leon A majority of the 1,000 auto workers at the car battery park Blue Oval in Glendale, Kentucky, have signed union cards to join the United Auto Workers. The battery park, a…
By Claudia Ward–de León I live in rural New England, a place where driving a car is my only option if I need to get to a doctor, a specialty store like a hardware or…
Ask Finland. By Patrick Greenfield Tiina Sanila-Aikio cannot remember a summer this warm. The months of midnight sun around Inari, in Finnish Lapland, have been hot and dry. Conifer needles on the branch-tips are orange…
By Lucy Dean Stockton and Freddy Brewster While North Carolina was once a national leader in renewable energy and climate change resiliency policies, that changed in the early 2010s when Republicans secured control of both…
By Oliver Milman Exported gas emits far more greenhouse gas emissions than coal, despite fossil-fuel industry claims it is a cleaner alternative, according to a major new research paper that challenges the controversial yet rapid…