The latest from my free Sustain What newsletter — a twice-a-week peek behind the green curtains at climate realities (solutions and hurdles) that are missed in the sound bites and clickbait. Subscribe here! —

The latest from my free Sustain What newsletter — a twice-a-week peek behind the green curtains at climate realities (solutions and hurdles) that are missed in the sound bites and clickbait. Subscribe here! — I have a new post up at my Sustain What newsletter/blog warning what to watch for and work for after the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill moves past President Biden’s desk. Here’s the lede:

I long appreciated the Medium platform for its spare design and simple tools for writing and integrating a variety of media. This was a great space to work in after I ended my nine-year span of Dot Earth blogging at The New York Times. But I’ve moved my base of…

I was invited to give the Commencement Address at Warren Wilson College and, of course, it ended up virtual. The school is an innovative learning and doing hub bridging academia with issues and culture in the Appalachians. Here’s what I said. …

By Bill Revkin (written in 2018; published here by his son Andy) I am truly an old salt now, in my 90s, and that allows me to reflect on a remarkable span of activities on and around the sea, both cruising and racing in pleasure boats and stints in the…

Through this pandemic time, I’ve hosted more than 150 episodes of Sustain What, my webcast from Columbia’s Earth Institute exploring constructive paths when complexity and consequence collide. …

I reported on the rise, triumphs, tribulations and troubles of Rajendra K. Pachauri, the longest-serving chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, from 2002 through 2015 for The New York Times. Click here to explore my coverage. He died on Thursday at home in New Delhi at age 79. …

A parable about a fire-dousing bird in the Himalayas holds lessons for humans in this “Pyrocene” century — A friend and Earth Institute colleague, Brighton Kaoma, posted a Buddhist parable on Facebook that prompted me to think about the firefighters and citizen volunteers who’ve spent months trying to protect communities, and species, threatened by the massive wildfires in Australia. The Selfless Parrot

Seven years ago, my brain hinted to me that I might be having a stroke. During a rare run in the woods with my super-fit elder son on a hot Fourth of July weekend in 2011, my brain — which I hardly ever think about — gave me a strong…