by John Cronin | Feb 2, 2014 | EarthDesk Sunday
This week’s EarthDesk Sunday is our second of three tributes to Pete Seeger, who died on January 27 at 94. Our third will appear in few weeks. In addition to his world renown as a musician, songwriter and performer, Pete was a lifelong activist and defender of...
by EarthDesk | Jan 28, 2014 | Dear Departed Friend
Pete Seeger May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014
by John Cronin | Dec 12, 2013 | Ecology, Ethics, Sustainability
It’s About Compassion and Human Dignity. And Rush Limbaugh Hates It. With no hint of irony, the most vitriolic critics of Pope Francis say his condemnations of greed, environmental abuse, and neglect of the poor are attacks on America. But when the pope linked...
by John Cronin | Jun 27, 2013 | Ecology
On the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970, its founder, Senator Gaylord Nelson, spoke in Denver, Colorado: Earth Day can — and it must — lend a new urgency and a new support to solving the problems that still threaten to tear the fabric of this society . . ....