Midweek Mental Greening Last week, I told you about a Boston Globe article that discussed the negative mental health effects global warming is having on some people, and promised you some tips on how to deal with those kinds of effects – whether the issue is global warming, poverty, animal rights ...

It was full of gloom and doom, which is not what some of us might have expected from the "hope" President, but just the kind of realism the nation needs to hear. Finally someone who will ask us to step up to bat and make the sacrifices needed to turn the planet around! (And frankly the enormity of t...

While on Capitol Hill last week, I encountered anti-United Nations talk.  The United Nations, or just UN is a bad word in some circles.  Can anything good come out the UN?  The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world...