Working Life

I am guessing everyone who listens to this show considers himself or herself an environmentalist and cares about the planet. You believe in science—a shocking notion—so you get the climate change emergency. We know we have to do some pretty radical stuff to keep this spaceship habitable for generations to come. Here’s the problem: there […]

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I’ve been thinking a lot about firefighters these days, what with the jaw-dropping video we see virtually every day of these monstrous wild fires scorching millions of acres of forests in California and Oregon. For the record, these fires are absolutely driven by climate change—so what we see today will be a feature every single […]

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CEOs like to play a three-card Monte shell game. They want everyone to focus on their rhetoric about all the supposed wonderful things they do—say, creating a “green” friendly product—and, at the same time, when people aren’t paying attention, they run their company using fear, sexism and racism. That sums up the world of Elon […]

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They are back—and trying to get their hands on your mailbox. Big money interests have tried for a very long time to make a ton of money by privatizing the postal service, and now the danger is ramped up with the ideologues in the White House. Mark Dimondstein, president of the American Postal Workers Union, […]

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Just as we were wrapping up the podcast episode, the striking teachers in Los Angeles won a new contract. I review the highlights, and underscore the smart strategy the union used in the campaign that generated overwhelming support for the teachers. Then, I chat with climate warrior Daphne Wysham about “risk bonding”, a demand that […]

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I recently  coined a term: “The Four Horsemen of the Climate Change Apocalypse”. That refers to the climate-change deniers who are ready to act as the arsonists of the planet: Trump, Rex Tillerson, Rick Perry and Scott Pruitt. In this podcast, I look at these dangerous people and talk with a national climate change expert, […]

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This is why we worked for a year. This is what a political revolution begins to accomplish. This is what YOU have done. Sure, there is a lot more to do. But, this comes only because of a political revolution that forced this to happen: ORLANDO, Fla. – Democrats agreed to the most aggressive plan to combat […]

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Today was a teachable moment (beyond the horrific, racist shooting in Charleston). Sometimes you have two moments that appear together and need to be connected. As I sat out West (on the road for work), it became clear that what the Pope had to say about climate change and the desperate attempts by the president to ram through fast track are deeply connected.

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Many people have made the point that the very economic system–the corrupt system–that leaves billions struggling to make ends meet while the elite party on and on and on is the same system that has ravaged the environment and threatened the very existence of humanity on the planet. Now, the Pope says it. His expected […]

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I suppose this is obvious. More people means a bigger drag on the planet. Some actual research though confirms it.

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