Author: Marianne Barisonek

In September of 2025 Marjorie Taylor Greene called for a national divorce arguing that Red and Blue states had so little in common it was time for them to part company. She isn’t alone. There are secession movements on both the right and the left as polarization in the country is on the rise. But […]

There is an epidemic of loneliness in the United States. Alone, we watch the country slide away from democracy and toward dictatorship. We need to band together to fight for what had already been won. Staying in it for the long run means learning how to get along with others. In his book Love in […]

What if we have it all wrong? We accept unemployment, inflation, low wages, lack of access to healthcare and education, periodic recessions, ecological collapse, food insecurity and endless wars as inevitable. The underlying belief in a market driven system is the bedrock of our economy. We’ve handed our lives and resources over to a mechanism […]

When the Heritage Foundation published Project 2025 two years ago, the goals seemed so radical that many dismissed the threat as far-fetched. But as the Trump presidency steamrolls over accepted norms, court orders and public opinion, much of that radical agenda is being implemented.

For the first time in over a hundred years salmon are returning to historical spawning grounds in the Klamath River. After four hydroelectric dams were removed the river came back to life. Wild salmon, once on the brink of extinction have returned in astonishing numbers. More than just a regional victory, the dam removal from […]

The saying goes that “people can imagine the end of the world easier than imagining the end of capitalism.” I know it seems insane but what if we geared society to produce for sufficiency instead of profit? We might actually be able to mitigate the damage from our fossil fuel civilization if we change the […]

The imperative to stop burning fossil fuels and a proliferation of new tech gadgets like cell phones and smart everything has businesses and governments scrambling to procure the metals that make the magic happen. Mining, refining and even recycling these components comes with a heavy environmental cost. Can we realistically switch from fossil fuels to […]

It’s dawning on a growing number of people that the lack of response to the climate crisis is bringing us toward a Thelma and Louise ending for industrial civilization.

As we scramble to create a more sustainable version of our civilization much of the focus has been on technology. But electric cars and reusable containers will only take us so far. From mountaintop removal to factory farms our relationship with the non-human world has been one of unabashed exploitation. If we’re to regain some […]