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Mothers Don’t Grow on Trees

Mothers Don’t Grow on Trees

A popular book about “Mother Trees” cloaks its misleading claims in the beloved metaphor of motherhood. But as the need for public trust in ecological science increases, we can ill afford to substitute moralistic storytelling for the scientific method.

Class Divides in the Politics of Building

Class Divides in the Politics of Building

The turn to a “politics of building” is a welcome change in environmental thinking, but the green Left is still at odds in important ways with the labor movement, which better understands what is needed for deep decarbonization and, most importantly, has the power to help bring it about.

The Big Green Buy, Gaining Momentum

The Big Green Buy, Gaining Momentum

Government procurement must be reoriented away from dirty fossil fuels and toxic products toward cleaner alternatives to expand demand for such things. The Big Green Buy is gaining momentum, but fitfully.

Big Public Power from the River

Big Public Power from the River

The Tennessee Valley Authority was about more than electrification. It was a complex project of building state and public planning capacity geared toward rapid ecological restoration of the entire region. For impoverished farmers, it was nothing short of life changing.

Big Public Power from the Atom

Big Public Power from the Atom

Big public power in the last century applied the elemental potential of water toward social ends. The big public power of tomorrow should revolve around the elemental potential of the atom.

More Green Moralizing

More Green Moralizing

A response to Trey Taylor’s “Another Hedonism is Possible.”

Phoenix is the Future

Phoenix is the Future

If you want to know where the United States is heading, don’t visit the model blue and red locales. A sprawling Sun Belt metropolis that’s all growth and no value is where you want to be.