Spring is a season of courtship and nesting and fluffy little baby creatures. But all this effort takes energy: the mothers need calories to produce the young, and then to feed them. And eggs and offspring are helpless little packets … Read More
Even though for 27 years I had no idea what this plant was called, it has held a special place in my memory. Every fall I see it, a weed as tall as a bush, the stems an impossibly bright … Read More
What has been your relationship with environmental issues? My mother took me to my first protest when I was six, against the Seabrook nuclear plant in New Hampshire in 1976. She also took me for walks in the local woods … Read More
Photos by Tom Hallock A year ago, when UUA/Beacon left our location on Beacon Hill to move to the Innovation District, I sorely regretted the change of scenery on my morning walk into the office. No more expanses of grass, … Read More
Climate change is happening, and faster than scientists expected. Polar ice caps are melting faster, island nations are going underwater, the ocean is acidifying and warming. In the US, we are suffering catastrophic droughts from California to Texas, along with … Read More
As an editor, I feel very fortunate to have worked with Stefan Bechtel on his book about the early and fierce conservationist William Temple Hornaday. As an eco-activist myself, I was captivated by Hornaday’s story, that he went up against … Read More
When Alexis Rizzuto was planning the vacation she took this past fall, she didn’t pore over travel guides or look to glossy magazines for inspiration. Alexis is an editor at Beacon Press, so she just took a look at the amazing … Read More
On November 6, Beacon Press editor Alexis Rizzuto was part of the Tar Sands Action protest in Washington, DC. She sat down with our blog editor to discuss the protest and its impact. What was the protest about? It was … Read More
http://www.iheartungulates.com/ Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, MA is a hot spot for migratory birds and those who watch them, and the stars of the bird show this spring have been the owlets. In late April, the two great horned owl … Read More
We at Beacon would like to commemorate the passing of one of our environmental authors, Theodore Michael Dracos (Ted in his by-line, Theo to friends). His book, Biocidal: Confronting the Poisonous Legacy of PCBs, first came to us in 2008 … Read More