Climate Change

Visual Arts Review: “Nurture: Empathy for the Earth” — Imagining Healing the Planet

October 24, 2024
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This show brings together works that emphasize an optimistic view of where we are by dramatizing ways in which we can develop a more empathetic connection with the struggling environment.

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Book Review: “Happy Apocalypse” — A License to Pollute for Profit

August 2, 2024
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This book argues that environmental and industrial regulations, in place since the early 19th century, weren’t devised to reign in environmental destruction or workplace dangers.

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Book Review: “The Sixth Extinction, Tenth Anniversary Edition” — Still Essential

June 12, 2024
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Today, Elizabeth Kolbert’s book remains an important reminder of what is at stake — nothing less than the future of life on earth.

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Arts Commentary: Creative Cross-Pollination — HarborArts Expands the Power of Public Art

June 4, 2024
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Over the last 15 years, HarborArts has effectively used public art to raise public awareness, stimulating dialogue about environmental concerns — the climate crisis and degradation of the sea.

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Theater Interview: GSC’s Rebecca Bradshaw on “Water’s Rising: Festival of New Climate Action Plays”

April 22, 2024
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“We need hope in the possibility of change in order to survive what’s coming.”

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Theatre Preview: A Chat with Basil Twist — Poetry Wins in “Book of Mountains and Seas”

April 16, 2024
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You either go full Hollywood CGI, or you pare it down to the poetry of it.

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Book Review: Akshat Rathi’s “Climate Capitalism” — We Have Made Progress

March 6, 2024
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This encouraging book highlights the preponderance of positive developments regarding the efforts, worldwide, to deal with climate change.

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Book Review: “Waiting for Al Gore” — Birds of a Feather

February 20, 2024
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For a light-hearted take on some serious issues, “Waiting for Al Gore” delivers.

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Book Review: “The Flag, The Cross, and the Station Wagon” — A New Chapter in the American Story?

August 7, 2022
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What a cruel hoax: the middle class suburban lifestyle, a proud achievement of postwar America and the envy of peoples throughout the world (in no small part due to Mad Men glamorization), contains the very seeds of our demise. If demise is where this is heading.

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August Short Fuses – Materia Critica

August 5, 2022
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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