Wetlands Decision Muddies the Water at EPA
A recent SCOTUS wetlands decision opens waterways to pollution for profit, while destroying natural buffer areas that purify water and protect cities.
Dawn Allen
Dawn Allen is a freelance writer and editor who is passionate about sustainability, political economy, gardening, traditional craftwork, and simple living. She and her husband are currently renovating a rural homestead in southeastern Michigan.
Empty Pews, Politics and Civil Rights
Empty pews in American houses of worship signify an accelerating demographic trend moving away from organized religion. Will leaders react appropriately?
Will Sacrifice Zones Save the Planet?
The mining, refining and manufacturing demanded by industrial civilization – even “green” renewables – means pollution, cancer alleys, and sacrifice zones.
Homeowners Associations: Friend or Foe?
What happens when homeowners want to be more “green” than their HOA allows them to be? Know when to work with them, and when the rules are unenforceable.
Forgive Us Our Trespasses (Or Not)
Even those who piously pray for their own trespasses to be forgiven might meet the delivery guy or lost wanderers with guns ablaze lately. What gives?
Kevin McCarthy and the Sword of Damocles
With a debt default looming, does Speaker McCarthy regret handing so much power to GOP extremists in his desperate fight to lead the House?
We’re Not Going to Solve the Gun Problem
America’s gun problem is not fixable through legislative means. We need to change the way the country thinks, first.
Where is the Justice, Clarence Thomas?
ProPublica’s bombshell report on Justice Clarence Thomas’s apparently egregious ethics violations should lead to a deeper investigation.
Dead Moms, Hungry Kids & American Decline
We’re the “richest nation in the world,” but American decline can be measured in maternal mortality, dead teens, hungry kids and those who like it this way.
Won’t Somebody Think of the Children?
Frozen embryos exist in a strange place, between property and personhood, bridging the future and the laws of the past.