by Mary Poppins, a long-time environmental activist who can be reached via email at info@fukushimaresponse.com Fukushima The problem first became apparent in 1985. I was sitting on a porch in the mountains in Arizona reading a Scientific American article by…
Fascism has come to the industrialized world, and the evidence is particularly clear in the United States. As I wrote in a book published in 2004 regarding the executive branch of the U.S. government: [The administration] is characterized by powerful…
The overdeveloped left hemisphere of my brain tells me one thing. My emerging artistic side tells me another. But before we get to the core of the issue, a little personal history is warranted. During my final decade in the…
by Sandy Krolick As Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega summarized, it seems the USA was “isolated” -- a regular persona non grata -- at the Summit of the Americas last week in Columbia. Nor were our military and Secret Service ‘dicks’…
I presented at SUNY-Fredonia on 2 April 2012. The standing-room-only audience, in a room with 200 chairs, included about 30 students from a class on Kurt Vonnegut and similar number from a class on environmental chemistry. I was informed the…
by Jennifer Hartley A year ago, Guy invited me to write about my educational philosophy-in-progress and said he would post it on Nature Bats Last. I have been thinking about this invitation and dithering ever since (until now). The invitation…
by John Rember And bending down beside the glowing bars Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars. —Yeats, “When You are Old” 1. When was…