WAKING UP The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our time. They are kneeling with hands clasped that we may act with restraint, that we might leave room for the life that is destined to come. ~Terry Tempest Williams As this Turning Point… Read more
by Nancy Margulies “Deep Adaptation,” a term coined by Professor Jem Bendell, refers to a way of responding to the climate crisis with the understanding that it is likely to impact us sooner than we realize and will likely result in a massive societal upheaval and transformation. In my despair around the fragile state of… Read more
by William Meyers When I spoke with Karl Eric Knutsson in Stockholm in mid-1999, he had recently retired from the United Nations, finishing his career as a senior official and important seminal thinker for UNICEF. I was in town to help Save the Children Sweden re-think its international program in anticipation of the year 2000…. Read more
by Peter Pitzele This is a story about my conversion and its aftermath. It is not dramatic in the way of St. Paul. Rather, mine was gradual, a mounting sense of change, an accumulation of evidence that took one last straw to tip into a certainty. That straw was a piece of reading, and the… Read more
by John Cook Climate change is a more divisive issue than ever. The public’s beliefs about questions such as human-caused global warming have been drifting further apart for several decades. Democrats have become more convinced that climate change is real and needs solving, while Republicans are much less convinced. How do we solve this… Read more
by Margaret Klein Salamon, PhD, with Jim Streit It is fitting that younger generations are taking the lead in the grass-roots response to the unfolding climate and environmental emergency. They have contributed the least to creating the crisis and yet stand to suffer the worst of the consequences. It’s heartening to see younger people rising… Read more
by Leslie Wharton What does it mean to be an “elder” these days? Before World War II, elders were viewed as the font of wisdom, the people you went to when you needed solutions to problems that you had not encountered before. Elders could tap into memories of their parents, grandparents, and ancestors to remember… Read more
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