Environment Archives

A CLIMATE FIGHT FOR THE AGES

After four years of struggle, Weymouth activists continue to challenge the fossil fuel industrial complex

ITAI VARDI September 18, 2019

A SPECIAL CLIMATE CRISIS ISSUE

Covering Climate Now now ranks as one of the most ambitious efforts ever to organize the world’s media around a single coverage topic.

BINJ ONLINE September 18, 2019

If brilliant Boston and the supposedly clever state surrounding it can’t get their climate remediation and preparedness acts together, how are less wealthy parts of the country supposed to manage the job?

JASON PRAMAS September 18, 2019

THE NEW POLLUTANTS

A growing body of research suggests that, in and around traffic, what you can’t see may be killing you

VINCENT GABRIELLE August 9, 2019

INTERVIEW & EVENT (JULY 28) AT PORTER SQUARE BOOKS TO DISCUSS CLIMATE CHANGE

“The positive that always comes out of those conversations is that you end up getting much more integration of a successful business because most people want to know what a company stands for.”

GABBY RAYMOND July 26, 2019

THE RIGHT QUESTION FOR THE BROAD LEFT

On July 5, start asking the Democrats, “What policies will help working families?”

JASON PRAMAS July 4, 2019

Jason Pramas and Amy Carter at the “Northampton 15” CIA Off Campus Trial in Northampton, MA on April 8, 1987. Stills from WGBH archival video, courtesy of the Boston TV News Digital Library.

ON THE IMPORTANCE OF POLITICAL ACTIVISM IN AN AGE OF EXISTENTIAL THREATS

IMAGE: Jason Pramas and Amy Carter at the “Northampton 15” CIA Off Campus Trial in Northampton, MA on April 8, 1987. Stills from WGBH archival video, courtesy of the Boston TV News Digital Library. This week, a reminder that politics is not a spectator sport. I was listening to a

JASON PRAMAS March 13, 2019

BOSTON FIDDLES WHILE THE WORLD BURNS

City government continues issuing reports while UN calls for immediate action

JASON PRAMAS October 24, 2018

THE MERRIMACK VALLEY DISASTER: IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT OLD PIPES

The magnitude of the disaster is just starting to sink in. About 8,500 homes were affected, and its occupants are being told that it will take months to replace the cast iron gas pipes under city streets and restore service.

JASON PRAMAS September 18, 2018

SOME THOUGHTS ON TRANSPORTATION POLICY

It was vexing to watch Bird fans that clearly hadn’t even bothered to read the article in question—let alone my broad and deep back catalog—attack me as some kind of car-loving anti-environmental reactionary in the service of flogging their hipster transportation fetish du jour.

JASON PRAMAS August 16, 2018