Nearly Blind Rust Belt Blues

Nearly Blind Rust Belt Blues

Nearly Blind Rust Belt Blues No one warned me that the smokestacks, skyscraper guts, and starless nights could turn my gaze so steely. Carp leapt from green water to smack the flanks of coal barges hauling the corpses of ancient ones who never asked to be cremated....
Human Nature

Human Nature

This morning I’m imagining what could have been if only we’d kept our animal selves intact… if only we’d never allowed our hearts and minds to be colonized… if only we’d fought harder to protect our habitat… With the help of...

Climate Change Science Haiku

Seattle-based oceanographer Greg Johnson is usually processing data from Argo floats–instruments in the ocean that measure things like ocean temperature, salinity, and density. But after reading the 5th IPCC Report that was published in 2013, he found himself...
In Human Time

In Human Time

The Climate Museum in NY City officially opened in its temporary space in the Parsons School of Design on December 20, 2017 with two artists: Zaria Forman, who we’ve featured here before, and Peggy Weil. In Human Time is about ice: Zaria Forman‘s beautiful...