Let’s price carbon now and let’s do it equitably
When I first started gardening in 1974, frost took the cold sensitive plants down the very first weekend in September.
Are forests only commodities?
Everywhere we go we see the scars of logging in our county and state forests.
I want to get involved, but…
It was sometime in 1988 when I became involved in my first organization outside of school.
A letter to national legislators
Dear National Legislators, we know you fight for us, but we’re confused.
Musings on higher education
The shortage of pharmacists in this country predates COVID, so no one should be lumping this shortage in with other worker shortages. The solution to this kind of shortage lies within education.
Women’s reproductive health under fire from an unjust system
Eight million women are uninsured as they face the "Medicaid gap" when their income is too high for Medicaid and too low to purchase healthcare through the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
Thoughts on Education
I would question if we, as a society, really value education. It seems to me what we call education is more like indoctrination with a minimal level of skills training to function in the workplace.
It is not too late to halt Line 3 for health.
The Anishinaabe peoples are one group who will be negatively impacted. Their tribal lands and livelihoods are threatened.
Rare
The saying goes, if you hear hoofbeats, you think horses, not zebras. That very line of reason is why it took so long for me to get accurate diagnoses for so many ailments I suffer from.
Pitchfork Economics
Economics is not an exact science. The economy, and the way we carve up the economic pie, is a political and social process. It is not set in stone and can be improved.