Newspaper articles and opinion pieces

Columns and feature articles written for the Sunday Environment section of the Rutland Herald and Barre-Montpelier Times-Argus in Vermont.

For each year, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, there is a pdf collection of my newspaper columns (box on right).

Environmental Journalism Revisited outlines the history, philosophy and vision of the Sunday Environment page; and gives an overview of the published content during the first four years.

This letter from the 1927 flood in Vermont was published in the Herald in memory of the Irene flood.

Filter By Topic: Climate Change; Community solutions; Earth system; Forests; Local Food; Policy; Renewable energy; Scientific integrity; Seasonal climate; Waste management; Water

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2011-12-04A miraculous protocol saved the ozone layer: Rutland Herald & Barre-Montpelier Times-Argus
2011-07-31Our children’s future is a changing natural world: Rutland Herald and Barre-Montpelier Times-Argus
2011-05-08Real power lies in resilience, not risk: Rutland Herald & Barre-Montpelier Times-Argus
2010-08-29Earth’s Response to human stresses on the natural landscape: Rutland Herald
2010-07-18Human actions have local and global impacts: Rutland Herald
2010-06-06Oil disasters and the transition to sustainability: Rutland Herald
2010-03-07Winter waste management: Rutland Herald
2009-08-02The choices we face: Rutland Herald

Yearly Collections of my VT newspaper columns

These collections of articles blend science with a systems perspective as they go through the seasons, dealing with weather, climate, energy and policy issues. They encourage the reader to explore alternative and hopeful paths for themselves, their families and society. I have written them so that a scientist will perceive them as accurate (although simplified); while the public can relate their tangible experience of the weather to the much broader issues of climate and climate change.

Special climate topics

Short papers covering selected topics in more detail