Pope Francis changes the game on environment
It felt almost eerie to read excerpts of Pope Francis’ encyclical on Climate Change released last week, since in my last article I listed the …
Where our troubles began
Often when we are in a crisis we tend to view it as arising from current events or recent choices rather than from philosophical and …
Climate Change: Untold profits, utter devastation
Walking along the Riverwalk trail to Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale, it is alarming to see heavy construction and drilling equipment for a …
Courage and villainy collided 50 years ago
PHOTO COURTESY OF peter Pettus / Libraryofcongress.gov On March 7, 1965, courage and villainy collided on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, when John …
S. FL. Paradise never loved
Spreading between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, the lush green peninsula of South Florida sits like a precious emerald with the Caribbean …
President’s $2 billion request will foster black’s use of parks
If money is our measure of worth, then the news that President Obama proposed an additional $2 billion in his 2016 budget to fund the …
After the flood & before the rising sea
In the decade I was born our nation of 128 million people was in the grip of one of the first great man-made ecological disasters …
‘47 Flood & Climate Change: Like Sleeping With the Enemy
As a young boy growing up in “colored town” west of the railroad tracks in Dania I lived through the great flood of 1947 that …
A long-term view of our changing environment
A few years after my wife Audrey and I had the eye-opening experiences that made us into advocates for the environment, I asked my mother: …