Climate Change

Local Author Interview: Katy Doughty Isn’t Giving Up on the Future

October 22, 2026
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In “How to Survive the End of the World,” catastrophe is only part of the story. There’s also human resilience—and the possibility of making things better.

Visual Arts Review: At the Goethe-Institut, a Landscape Bears Witness

October 18, 2026
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In her haunting installation “Cemetery of the Nameless,” Pınar Öğrenci contemplates displacement, anonymous deaths, and the cruelties that recur across borders and centuries.

Film Review: “Digger” Can’t Dig Its Way Out of Its Own Artifice

October 1, 2026
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Tom Cruise delivers a virtuoso turn, but Iñárritu buries a potentially potent climate-change comedy beneath exposition, self-congratulation, and stunts.

Film Review: “Hoppers” — Pixar’s Madcap Eco-Fable Hops Between Absurdity and Alarm

March 10, 2026
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“Hoppers”‘ climax is a valuable reminder that none of us —  from mammal to ant — are safe from the fury of a Mother Nature we have badly wronged.

Book Review: “The Alibi of Capital” — Accept No Excuses

March 7, 2026
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Stealing the future and concealing the theft — capitalism’s method, which, according to this well-argued book, is incompatible with sustaining the global climate and democracy.

Book Reviews: Four Books on the Climate Crisis — Is it Really the End of the World?

October 6, 2025
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How bad is the future going to be? Depends on who you read.

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.

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.

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.

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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