This weekend my first-born son will graduate at age 20 with a B.A. in Biology. He will join thousands of other graduates across the country marching to the dais to accept his hard-earned degree from school officials dressed in the medieval cap and gowns we still wear for such occasions. And then he will march [...]
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Embracing the Monster of Climate Change
Finally, a mainstream media reporter has the courage to bring up the elephant in the newsroom: CLIMATE CHANGE!!! In a blog post—not a front page or prime time news story, alas–ABC News reporter Bill Blakemore writes candidly of the fear that a realistic assessment of the threat of climate change must raise in anyone who [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on May 14, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/05/14/embracing-the-monster-of-climate-change/
Help Wanted: Strong Leadership on Climate Change, Starting Immediately
Now if only President Obama could show the same leadership on climate change as he has just demonstrated on the divisive same- sex-marriage issue. The same narrow-minded interests that made same-sex marriage such a boogeyman for the President are also controlling the GOP-dominated boardrooms of Big Oil, from Mr. Cheney on down. These people seem [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on May 10, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/help-wanted-strong-leadership-on-climate-change-starting-immediately/
Welcome to the Knowledge Factory
The lead article in this week’s Chronicle of Higher Education Review is titled “The Ph.D. Now Comes With Food Stamps.” More than 350,000 Americans with advanced degrees applied for food stamps in 2010, part of “an often overlooked, and growing, subgroup of Ph.D. recipients, adjunct professors, and other Americans with advanced degrees who have had [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on May 8, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/welcome-to-the-knowledge-factory/
Occupy Earth
In the week since the Occupy May Day General Strike, I’ve been thinking a lot about the impact of the event. Friends who were in New York City that day say it was tremendously exciting, especially the permitted march from Union Square to Wall Street, which apparently stretched out strong over some 30 blocks. As [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on May 7, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/occupy-earth/
Staring down the crystal ball
I really want to believe it’s all a hoax. Why else would not one mainstream media outlet be reporting on the massive danger posed by the unused fuel rods in Fukushima Reactor 4? Today I learned (through a link posted by on Facebook by my friend, the author Susan Griffin) that a group of high-level scientists, [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on May 2, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/staring-down-the-crystal-ball/
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