IN THIS EPOCH we are living in, accelerating climate change is causing severe weather events to happen more frequently and with greater force. This includes extreme heat, which is dangerous, even deadly. Heat waves currently kill hundreds of Americans every summer and send tens of thousands more to the emergency room. The Boston Metro area […]
Vernon K. Walker
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Ranked choice voting can promote equality
“I am convinced that if we are to get on to the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values” Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, 1967 Dr. King spoke those words to a crowd of 400,000 exactly one year before he was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. […]
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Bringing nature back into our environment
EVEN IF WE STOPPED Using fossil fuels tomorrow, here in the Northeast we will continue to face more intense storms, more frequent drought, and more extreme heat. And virtually no one is doing enough to protect people, property, and the natural world from these weather extremes. Just as climate activists are rising up to demand […]
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America needs a moral revival
WE ARE LIVING in some very dark and difficult days in America. There is a flood of rhetoric from the Trump administration that demonizes and castigates black and brown immigrants. Donald Trump himself has fanned the flames of hate with his open xenophobia, infecting the national discourse. This behavior is ungodly and unethical, and it does […]