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  • Cabinet Members

    The folks at the Backbone Campaign - backbonecampaign.org - have been working since 2003 on coming up with potential progressive candidates for cabinet offices.

    It's worth a look to see who could be rounding out the list.On The green scoop on Obama's Cabinet and administration picks and prospects posted 1 year ago 9 Responses

  • Welcome to the Club, Ian

    I've actually spent the last year touring my one-woman show about climate change.  It's called "The Boycott" - the story of the First Lady of the US launching a nationwide sex strike to combat global warming.

    Sex, drugs, and climate change!  And it's alllll funny.

    Except for the depressing parts, of course.

    www.theboycottplay.comOn Ian McEwan writing a novel about climate change -- with funniness! posted 1 year, 5 months ago 3 Responses

  • Oh Good Grief!

    You know, I just bought a used scooter with a 2-stroke because that's all I could afford.

    I live 15 miles from town in the middle of the woods in Vermont, and I have neither the time nor the energy to do that commute by pedal bike all the time.

    I figure taking the distances by scooter is still a damn sight better than by car.

    I also figure any improvement is better than no improvement, and holding people to Astronomically High Standards of Purity and Absolutism only alienates the folks for whom any change is a challenge, and only serves to make the rest of us feel bad for our lack of perfection.On Scooter ridership zooms as gas prices rise posted 1 year, 5 months ago 6 Responses

  • About The Audience

    Eriga,

    While many of the people who come to the show already sensitized to the realities of climate change,  in many cases, there is still a rather large gap between knowing that action needs to be taken, and actually taking action.

    That gap is usually a product of some combination of overwhelm, inertia, and despair.

    The purpose of the show isn't to alert people to the realities of climate change or convince them that it's real.  Al Gore and the media (finally) have done a pretty good job of that.

    The goal of the show is to help folks across that gap into a place where they feel inspired to actually go out and take action.

    I can't tell you how many people have come up to me after the show and said some combination of A) Thank you for articulating what I've been feeling - I thought I was the only one who felt that way; B) I've known about what was going on, but I haven't done anything yet and now I'm going to; C) I'm going to come back with friends.

    I've also had people tell me some time after seeing the show that they finally got around to toting re-usable shopping bags and coffee mugs with them everywhere they go.

    Or, as a friend of mine put it when I told her I'd been accused of preaching to the choir, "Even the choir needs a good hymn."

    - KathyOn A new play with historical and environmental roots posted 1 year, 10 months ago 8 Responses

  • Thanks!

    Erik,

    Thanks for the shout-out and for deflecting the missed point.

    To continue the clarification, the show is a farce.  The uber-message is not about an eco-sex strike.  It's about the wild, hairy, creative solutions we each need to undertake to inch ourselves a little farther back from the brink.

    Also ongoing thanks to all the great guys and gals at Grist for the fantastic, world-saving work!

    - KathyOn A new play with historical and environmental roots posted 1 year, 10 months ago 8 Responses