Global Day of Mourning
On January 11, 2020 a 61-year-old man from Wuhan, China became the first reported casualty of coronavirus. Since then this lethal disease has infected more than 50 million people worldwide and killed more than 1 [...]
But the Trees Never Came Back
Sometimes the places in our lives that have been damaged become so familiar that we almost forgot how sad and angry we were when they were first damaged. We pass them every day, dulled to [...]
Artist Honors Children Who Have Died at the Border
Nancy Margulies is an artist whose work is dedicated to addressing social issues. “Art as Activism is my focus,” she says. This painting on canvas, which resembles a mural created directly on a brick wall, [...]
Sharing Grief Under a Golden Tree
The other day I drove over to the farm of my neighbors a few miles down the road, because I needed some maple syrup, and they have been tapping their own trees and maple sugaring [...]
20,000 Chairs in front of White House Memorialize COVID Victims
At the time of this blog, more than 220,000 Americans have died of coronavirus. On Sunday, October 4, a chilling visual symbol of those deaths spread out on the grassy Ellipse near the White House. [...]
Pitcher Plants & Other Great Teachers
When we’re challenged by hard times—environmental, social, personal—nature can offer valuable lessons on how to endure. In her book, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, about growing up in rural Georgia, Janisse Ray describes the life lessons she [...]
Hope Emerges for Morton National Park
RadJoy member Andy Carnahan first contacted us in the spring of this year. He had heard about our work and was interested in participating in the Global Earth Exchange on behalf of his beloved Morton [...]
Terry Tempest Williams “The Pall of Our Unrest”
On September 18, the New York Times Daily podcast featured Terry Tempest Williams reading her "Obituary for the Land." In it she implores all of us to realize that our American dream of "freedom" and [...]
The Beauty Impulse
No matter what’s knocked us down or how long we’ve been there, we can not only survive but thrive. Flattened by grief—ecological, social, personal—we can still be pierced by beauty, wonder, and delight. These gifts [...]
The Resilience of Green
I am sitting on a fold-up chair at the top of the asphalt driveway which brings us halfway up the mountain to where our house sits. The house was built in 1987, and the driveway [...]