Charles Eisenstein can tell you about his environmentalist friend who insists the one and only solution to climate change - barring any thought or talk of all other suggestions - is a carbon tax. “There's something in me,” he says, “that knows that can't be right.” Eisenstein, author of four books on ecology and economics, doesn't doubt the science. But in a polarized world, he questions society's increasing tendency to stake out uncompromising positions. “We will not have a healthy...
I am as dismayed by the election results as Randolph T. Holhut, and sympathize with his feelings. However, I feel that his column was offensive and, I'm sorry to say, stupid. Things are a little more complex than the view you presented in your state of anger. I don't believe that all of the 59 million people who voted for Donald Trump were “motivated by hate, ignorance, and violence.” To categorize them that way is exactly the opposite of what...
It happened overnight. In the spring of 1992. Brattleboro woke to find itself plastered with posters announcing a concert by an all-black, 100-voice church gospel choir from New Jersey. The poster photo alone was a revelation - all those black faces coming to one of the whitest towns in the country! Lift up your voices! Make a joyful sound unto the Lord! Truth be told, I was irrationally exuberant about this concert. I was a music critic back then, in...
Mailing address:
P.O. Box 1212, Brattleboro, VT 05302
Physical address:
139 Main St, Suites 601A and 604, Brattleboro, VT 05302
The Commons is published by Vermont Independent Media, Inc., a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.