I’m becoming one of those people. My last four Facebook posts were pictures of my dog and it’s only because I vaguely remember being put off when people posted endless pictures of their dog (why was that? I don’t seem to be able to remember) that I haven’t posted more. It’s been three weeks since…
Read MoreThe holidays brought us a lovely addition to our family this year – a little rescue puppy we’ve named Coco. Living with a canid – after ruminating about canids for weeks during our episodes on wolves and coyotes – it’s eye-opening (getting in touch with the natural world at 3:45 a.m.) and, well, she’s a…
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In June, 2015, a few months before the Paris Climate Agreement, Pope Francis published, “‘Laudato Si’ (On Care for Our Common Home),” the first papal encyclical to focus specifically on the environment. To make sense of this letter (an encyclical is a papal letter that gets circulated, thus the “cyclical” part of the term), I…
Read MorePeople are really nostalgic for the Middle Ages, which would suggest they are nostaligc for a pre-Industrial time (it helps if you have magic, though). Is every movie a reflection on the climate crisis now? The nice thing about tackling the climate/ environmental crisis in a movie is that it’s solved after about two hours….
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