Now’s the Time For Heroines and Heroes
We are dancing on the razor’s edge – a dangerous proposition as we are in a shrinking and critical window of time for our efforts to reverse the most catastrophic impacts of climate change we are facing. At the same time, we find ourselves with the tools, understandings and solutions to make radical changes in […]
Catawba College Becomes First Campus in North Carolina — and the Southeast — to go Carbon Neutral
The small, private liberal arts school is among just 13 colleges in the country to achieve net-zero so far. Catawba College, a tiny liberal arts school 40 miles northeast of Charlotte, just announced a big milestone: its carbon footprint is now zero. The private college becomes the first campus in the Southeast and the 13th in the […]
Will People Only Act When Climate Change Kills the Wine Industry?
A number of years ago, I had the privilege to speak at the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), a global body comprising members of the national parliaments of 178 of the 193 UN Member States. (Their latest assembly took place in October 2022 in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda.) At that event, I made friends with a […]