My latest podcast episode, Harry Potter and the Jante Law, is about trash management, a Danish meatball predicament, and a cheerful pooch named Harry Potter. Listeners from Belarus, Morocco, and Uzbekistan pushed The MOG's country list to 91. directory.libsyn.com/episode/inde...

My commentary on methane with Mike Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social also appears here, with a nod to Virginia's leadership. virginiamercury.com/2026/05/15/m...

Here's my commentary of today, with co-author Mike Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social, on actions in NY and MD concerning methane pollution. Mike is one of the world's leading climate scientists and he first became famous with publication of the hockey stick curve. marylandmatters.org/2026/05/15/m...

Thus Always to Tyrants is about coal domination and NGO "green grabbing" in Appalachia. This Meaning of Green episode features @johngav.bsky.social and Gabe Schwartzman on their book, Power and Just Transitions, and Kathy Selvage, a coal miner's daughter and anti-coal activist. meaningofgreen.com

Montgomery County, Maryland, is considering sending 600,000 tons of trash yearly to an out-of-state landfill. Here's a commentary that a colleague and I co-authored. virginiamercury.com/2025/11/17/d...

The Meaning of Green's latest episode highlights the drama of undamming the Klamath River and saving the forests that feed the Panama Canal. And the episode answers the question: How was an ill-fated dam proposal likened to flooding the Sistine Chapel? directory.libsyn.com/episode/inde...

In Virginia, more action on gasoline powered leaf blowers: www.arlnow.com/2025/09/17/c...

Weapons of the Weak, the latest Meaning of Green episode, features trembitas, community-based conservation in Ukraine, and Europe's magnificent beech forests, and explains why we should care about biodiversity. directory.libsyn.com/episode/inde...

Slideshow of today in Washington DC, and how it looks when a terrorizing government scares people away. By me, no paywall: fallows.substack.com/p/a-summer-a...

The latest Meaning of Green episode is called Germans Know How to Party. directory.libsyn.com/episode/inde... Germans Know How to Party features this tiny car, which has become a kind of cult car. Asparagus also figures into the episode, which is about parties and energy and climate action.

A committee of the Montgomery County Council in Maryland has voted down a proposal to gut the County's gas powered leaf blower ban. The Council's president will not bring the failed proposal to the full Council. So, the County's leaf blower ban will stay in effect.

MoCo (Montgomery County MD, outside DC) took big, important step in phasing out dirty, grossly polluting gas leaf-blowers. As DC has done, to wide public support. Some MoCo politicians trying to undermine it. How/why to stop them @vivianthomson.bsky.social marylandmatters.org/2025/07/10/l...

These days, I really miss Molly Ivins, with her sharp tongue, marvelous writing, deep faith in the possibilities of American democracy, and willingness to call things as she saw them. Here she describes why she left The New York Times. It has to do with chickens. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pug...

Other recent Meaning of Green (meaningofgreen.com) episodes feature a mysterious nocturnal creature in Brazil (Janis and the Sea of Forested Hills), an analysis of who could lose the most from overturning environmental rules in the US (Let Them Drink Lead), and The Great Rice Fiasco in Japan.

Great podcast episode by Vivian Thomson at Meaning of Green, on nationwide movement away from filthy, obsolescent gas-powered leaf blowers. (And why some bitter-enders in MoCo Maryland are trying to backslide.) Goes into class/race/equity issues. Worth hearing directory.libsyn.com/episode/inde...