Andreas Malm asks in his book How to Blow Up a Pipeline, when do we start fighting against climate change with violence? He is quick to emphasize violence means property violence—destroying pipelines, private jets, private super yachts, letting air out of the tires of SUVs. He suggests peaceful protest has gotten us nowhere, that past …
Category: Climate Emergency
Good COP, Bad COP
COP27 started yesterday in Egypt. Ahead of the conference, Egypt has been arresting activists, set up checkpoints where police randomly stop people to check their phones and social media accounts, created a complicated process for registering for the Green Zone, and are increasing surveillance by, among other things, installing video cameras in all of Sharm …
Seesaw
First snow viewed from my workplace Oh y’all, the weather doesn’t know what it wants to be. A few days after it was 80F it snowed. And then we had a colder than normal week. I put away all my warm weather clothes and packed my drawers with sweaters. And now I am typing this …
Always a Beginner
For all the years I have grown a garden, at home when I was a kid, on a sunny balcony in containers, in my own little slice of urban yard, I have learned a lot, mostly by trial and error but also through reading and talking to people. And I know there is so much …
The Only Way is Through
Today is the last day of my vacation. Sadly I didn’t achieve that relaxed vacation feeling until sometime in the middle of Saturday afternoon. In spite of all the wonderful mornings gardening, I was just so wound up that it took forever to chip it all away, and now that I’m ready to have a …
