Hill and Alexander During the time of Jim Crow laws, elected officials used police departments to keep people of color oppressed. “So that history is there, it is real. It is still real in the
Bodine & Kemp Barbara Bodine started her Chautauqua lecture with a story that has spread throughout the Middle East. The King of Saudi Arabia was reluctant to let Americans search for oil, but relented —
Rivett-Carnac & Figueres Many people ask Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac where they get their energy and optimism. “Well, we get it from facts, from data that we see,” Figueres said. Stubborn optimism has
Climate change lectures don’t usually start with poetry. Katharine Wilkinson’s did, this one by David Whyte. “Sometimes / if you move carefully / through the forest … / you come / to a place /
Janis Searles Jones and George Leonard Sitting on the beach, the ocean is still big, the water is still blue and the horizon is still endless. Yet the news is full of wildfires, droughts and
During President George W. Bush’s second term, Katharine Wilkinson noticed people were talking past each other, not to each other, about climate change — even when they shared a lot of the same concerns. Wilkinson
Bipartisan interest — as well as great public demand — in environmental protection spurred the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency in the late 1960s. “Those were the days,” said Christine Todd Whitman. Whitman served