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We Should All Dissent Not Respectfully
by Erwin Chemerinsky - LATimes - 07-03-2024
https://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=0b174ae3-2b65-4db4-b7e7-4a94a4215afb
Why Restaurants Are So Loud and What Science Says We Can Do About It
by Bishop Sand, Leslie Shapiro, & William Neff - WashPost - 06-02-2024
https://wapo.st/3W76kZV [Free gift article]
Accessible, ‘a Pleasure to Read’: How Apple’s Podcast Transcriptions Came to Be
Apple rolled out a feature highly requested by both disabled users and podcast creators. Why did it take so long?
by Ari Saperstein - Guardian - 06-15-2024
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/15/apple-podcast-transcription-feature
Renewable Energy 44.7% of EU Electricity Production in 2023 — Now #1
by Zachary Shahan - CleanTechnica.com - 06-30-2024
https://cleantechnica.com/2024/06/29/renewable-energy-44-7-of-eu-electricity-production-in-2023-now-1/
Small Cities in US Rust Belt Are Leading an Urban Transformation Charge
After empty streets and ruined economies cities try to write a new chapter with new apartments breweries and thriving arts scenes
by Stephen Starr - Guardian - 07-04-2024
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/04/small-cities-in-us-rust-belt-are-leading-an-urban-transformation-charge
'There Has to Be a Fight': How Workers Can Start Winning the Class War
"Why are working class people apathetic about politics? Because politics is completely dominated by corporations."
by Jon Queally - CommonDreams.org - 06-15-2024
bit.ly/3znf7xN
Harvard Law Faculty Weigh in on 2023-2024 Supreme Court Term
Harvard Law Today - Jul 02 2024
bit.ly/3zom2Xy
SCOTUS Was NEVER Meant to Be Kings & Queens
This lawlessness has gone way too far: the Senate needs to intervene and reassert its authority over the Supreme Court. And they need to do it now…
by Thom Hartmann - HartmannReport - 06-27-2024
https://hartmannreport.com/p/scotus-was-never-meant-to-be-kings-5a8?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=56wh0&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Progressive Patriotism for July 4 2024
Progressives understand that people can disagree with their government and still love their country and its ideals. But as we’re seeing now they don’t necessarily agree on the ideals.
by Peter Drier & Dick Flacks - CommonDreams.org - 07-04-2924
bit.ly/4cRMnfj
Building Solidarity for Transformative Social Change
A conversation with Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor about building cohesion across differences and organizing transformative social movements.
by Aaron Horvath - Stanford Social Innovation Review - 05-09-2024
https://ssir.org/articles/entry/solidarity-leah-hunt-hendrix-astra-taylor-interview?utm_source=Enews&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=SSIR_Now
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ZOE SCHLANGER is currently a staff reporter at the Atlantic, where she covers climate change. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, Time, Newsweek, The Nation, Quartz, and on NPR among other major outlets, and is cited in the 2022 Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology, and she is a recipient of a 2017 National Association of Science Writers’ reporting award. THE LIGHT EATERS is her first book.
American Environmentalism Just Got Shoved Into Legal Purgatory
The Supreme Court’s decision to overrule the long-standing Chevron doctrine could be used to undo environmental progress.
by Zoë Schlanger - TheAtlantic - 06-28-2924
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/american-environmentalism-just-got-shoved-into-legal-purgatory/ar-BB1p59Cs
A Glowing Petunia Could Radicalize Your View of Plants
by Zoë Schlanger - The Atlantic
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-glowing-petunia-could-radicalize-your-view-of-plants/ar-BB1kap9z
The Botanist Daring to Ask: What If Plants Have Personalities?
The idea of plant intelligence is still controversial but Rick Karban is already well beyond that.
by Zoe Schlanger – Bloomberg – 11-21-2020
bit.ly/3zr4Sc2
Book About Plant Intelligence Highlights the Messiness of Scientific Change
In The Light Eaters, the field of botany itself functions as a character—one in the process of undergoing a potentially radical transformation.
by Rachel Riederer – NewYorker – 06-12-2024
https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/a-new-book-about-plant-intelligence-highlights-the-messiness-of-scientific-change
Do Plants ‘Think’? We Might Not Know Enough about Consciousness to Be Certain
by Rachel Feltman & Alexa Lim – SciAm – 06-07-2024
https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/do-plants-think-our-understanding-of-consciousness-may-be-too-limited-to/
Learning the Language of Plants
A conversation with Jessica J. Lee and Zoë Schlanger – Orion -
https://orionmagazine.org/article/plant-language-jessica-j-lee-zoe-schlanger/
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