• Poet Alison Hawthorne Deming on What Nature Teaches -- If We Listen

  By Emily Voigt

  Poet and essayist Alison Hawthorne Deming reads her essay "Brief Encounter on The Savanna," and talks with Emily Voigt about interpreting elephants, the importance of animal stories, and how our better intentions can be fueled by the simple contemplation of natural beauty.

  Comments (0)  |  August 16, 2008  |  permalink
• A Not-So-Crazy Scheme for Solving Global Warming?

  By Emily Voigt

   

  Emily Voigt talks with Columbia University earth scientist Wallace Broecker, co-author of Fixing Climate, the latest in a spate of books on the seemingly intractable problem of global warming. Broecker and his co-author Robert Kunzig embrace a techno-fix to carbon dioxide emissions that was pioneered by physicist Klaus Lackner. The plan: scrub CO2 from the atmosphere and bury it deep within the ground in liquid form.

  More Info
  » Read review of Broecker and Kunzig's "Fixing Climate," from O...

  Comments (0)  |  July 20, 2008  |  permalink
• Revenge of the Weeds: Talking with Poet John Bensko

  By Zachary Sussman

   

  Poet John Bensko recites his poem, "Weeds," and talks with Zachary Sussman about karma, conflict, and seeing beyond the film of familiarity.

  Weeds

  How we love your legs, how
  in the midst of plenty
  we have learned to know

  the hardship of hatred.
  How your blade cuts us,
  and the hooves of your stock tread

  our stalks to mud. In spring's
  gentle sunlight we emerge from clover
  and grow lush beside that other spring,

  the one of water you would wish
  to lie down beside
  were it not for us.

  When you burn us in...

  Comments (0)  |  June 25, 2008  |  permalink
• Poet Pattiann Rogers: Everything out there is saying 'Yes.'

  By Zachary Sussman

   

  Pattiann Rogers recites her poem, "This Day, Tomorrow, And The Next," and talks with Zachary Sussman about how science is expanding the range of poetic possibilities.

  This Day, Tomorrow, And The Next
  When the blind and the deaf walk
  together into the forest, one of them
  understands the blackness of light
  on a clear day. The other understands
  the deep reach of stillness in a riot of green.

  Both alike feel on their faces
  the floating threads and tatters
  of occasional sun passing through
  the canopy o...

  Comments (0)  |  June 6, 2008  |  permalink
• Bangladesh Before the Flood, Part II

  By Emily Voigt

   

  OnEarth Articles Editor George Black traveled through Bangladesh for this summer's cover story, The Gathering Storm. Hear more of Emily Voigt’s interview with Black about changing environmental and political climates in one of the world’s most at-risk nations.

  » Read The Gathering Storm
  » Watch Audio Slideshow: Bangladesh Before the Flood

  Comments (0)  |  June 2, 2008  |  permalink
• Audio Slideshow: Bangladesh Before the Flood

  By Emily Voigt

  As global warming deepens its grip on the world, Bangladesh -- where tens of millions live just a few feet above sea level -- faces a grim prognosis. George Black, author of OnEarth Summer 08 cover story The Gathering Storm, says that Bangladesh “is really where everything converges. Not just topography, but also politics, because this is a Muslim country, it’s an incredibly poor country, it’s a very politically unstable country.... If this plays out as we foresee, you could be talking ...

  Comments (0)  |  May 28, 2008  |  permalink
• At the Crossroads of Observation and Imagination: Talking with Poet Brendan Galvin

  By Zachary Sussman

  Brendan Galvin recites his poem, "Nest" and talks with Zachary Sussman about naturalism, observation, and the fine line poets walk between the perfect poem and going off the edge.

  Nest
  I found it near that corner where
  some Septembers a skinny apple tree
  hangs fruit the size of stoplights,
  the nest itself a palmful,
  fallen intact, the bottom so thin
  I'd be thinking about
  the faith of scarlet tanagers
  had I looked up through it
  and counted four blue-green eggs
  mottled brown, and the nest itself
  like a r...

  Comments (0)  |  May 19, 2008  |  permalink
• Connecting GIs with Green Jobs

  By Jori Lewis

  Jyl DeHaven, founder of Green Collar Vets, and John Wright, one of the program's participants, talk with Jori Lewis about establishing independence and job security through emerging green industries.

  » Read Looking for a Few Good Men, from OnEarth's Spring 2008 issue

  Related Links
  » The Green Collar Solution, Thomas L. Friedman column, New York Times 10.17.07
  » Millions of Jobs of a Different Collar, New York Times 3.28.08
  » Green for All
  » Apollo Alliance
  » Switching to Green-Collar Jobs, ...

  Comments (0)  |  May 14, 2008  |  permalink
• Memory, Age, and Love Poetry: Talking with Poet Daniel Mark Epstein

  By Zachary Sussman

  Poet and biographer Daniel Mark Epstein recites his poem, "In Late November," and talks with Zachary Sussman about memory, age, and what it means to be a “love poet.”

  In Late November
  Of the butterfly-bush, whose purple flowers
  The monarch and the swallowtail
  Sipped in August, near my windowpane
  (Such a wealth of wings and flower clusters
  I could hardly see the grass, the trees)
  Only stalks and branches remain,
  And panicles tipped with russet berries.
  Now I see everything so vividly:
  The ...

  Comments (0)  |  April 1, 2008  |  permalink
• Hard Choices: George Black on Compromise and the Conservation Ethic

  By Emily Voigt

  OnEarth articles editor George Black reads his essay "Time to Be Unfaithful to Old Faithful," and talks with Emily Voigt about controversy and compromise in modern environmentalism.

  Comments (0)  |  March 25, 2008  |  permalink

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