AltHealth: That Quiet Place Inside
The US currently ranks highest in healthcare spending among the world’s developed nations. Our average cost per capita is $10,029 a year. What can we do to get our overall costs down? Practice better...
View ArticleLetter to the Editor: Governor Hedge Fund and the ProJo Collude Against the...
My favorite author, the late Ursula K. LeGuin, wrote about a certain kind of wizard, the patterner, in her Earthsea Trilogy. I am no wizard, but I do see patterns, and then write about them. In the...
View ArticleAdvice from the Trenches: Extreme Activist
Dear C and Dr. B; I live with my brother, who is an environmental activist. Nothing wrong with that, but he takes it to the extreme. He doesn’t sleep, eats little and is always upset over the state of...
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AltHealth: The Damaging Anti-Vaccine Movement
It just was announced that a second child has died this year in RI from flu complications. At least three have died in Massachusetts and many other deaths are being reported across the country. In...
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Adventure Within: Stir-crazy kids? Warm weather not coming fast enough? Urban...
George Eliot wrote, “Adventure is not outside man; it is within.” At Urban Air Adventure Park (UAAP), just north of Woonsocket in Bellingham, Mss, it is both, depending on whether you are child or...
View ArticleCut the Scrap!: The 2019 Compost Conference highlights the triumphs and hopes...
I have been composting since 1981, when I first started cleaning sheep barns for a cut of the manure. I fed sheep manure compost to my garden every year for 15 years and watched the clumpy clay and...
View ArticleStop Digging: To get out of this hole, we have to stop building fossil fuel...
Climate change because of deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels is the existential crisis of our times. The amount of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere has gone from 280 parts per million...
View ArticleAdvice from the Trenches: Aimless Kid
Dear C and Dr. B; My daughter is 23. In high school she was very rebellious and saw my strictness as “you never want me to have any fun!” She moved out when she graduated and went to community college...
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Go with the Flow: URI students find camaraderie through play and relaxation
Scott Botelho doing his thing on the quad as fall hits. There is a unique buzz along the University of Rhode Island quad created by the well-received student organization URI Flow. During a stroll...
View ArticleRhode Ireland: Irish immigrants’ influence abounds in our fair state
Of all the stories in Irish legend, few have captured more imaginations than the mystical kingdom of Tír na nÓg. It is said that beyond the western horizon lies a magical land of youth and opportunity,...
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New Wave Science: Local scientists study the ocean from the crest of a wave
The sands of time are shifting in Rhode Island, and not just metaphorically. Coastal erosion is a problem in the Ocean State, with the impact of climate change and the lack of replenishment of lost...
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Alt-Health: Little White Lies Lead to Big Problems
Booze Bar Liquor Pub Alcohol Bottles Drink PD Ouspensky once wrote that man could be classified as “an animal that lies.” This is most certainly true. Much of the time, it can be a harmless...
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Armchair Activism: Why the pen is mightier than the sword
There is something inherently flawed about the notion that actions speak louder than words. The creation of words is an action, and in a world where matters so often get out of hand, a lot can be said...
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Epiphany at the End of the Earth: An intrepid traveler gets up close and...
I got off the plane in Ushuaia, Argentina, located on the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, the southernmost tip of South America nicknamed the “End of the World.” My journey to Antarctica began there as I...
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Pass it On!: Raising kids to be stewards of the Earth is no child’s play
Parenting in the age of climate change can be overwhelming. As I try to raise my young children to be environmentally conscious citizens, I use the theory of environmental education David Sobel writes...
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The Sun Rises on a New Day
The Sunrise Movement is a national organization made up of young people between the ages of 18 and 35 fighting to stop climate change and create new jobs in the process. I recently spoke with a member...
View ArticleHands Off!: Monetization plan for Providence water will hurt RI residents and...
To safeguard the clean and affordable water that the Providence Water Supply Board (PWSB) delivers to more than 60% of Rhode Islanders, our legislators should reject two bills that enable Providence...
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Uncovering Indigenous Truth: Lorén Spears tells her story
It is quite damning that in 2019, the Narragansett people of Rhode Island still face hardships and discrimination on the very land they have called home for thousands of years. But despite their...
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You Gotta Fight for Your Right: One woman’s desire for change was channeled...
As a lifelong Rhode Islander, I’m ashamed to admit how few times I had been inside our State House prior to 2016. Maybe a school field trip or two? Maybe? But on that fateful election night more than...
View ArticleAltHealth: Can Alzheimer’s Disease Be Prevented?
I watched my father turn from a marathon runner and 11-time elected public official into a shrunken, lost soul, as transparent as wax. At the assisted living home where he finally landed, he believed...
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