Don’t Stick to Sports, Part 3
In pro basketball, the power of words
The first two installments of this series looked at the social and political impact athletes have made by sitting out... Read More
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Sustainability and Justice
The pioneering work of Dr. Robert Bullard
Long before Black Lives Matter and its poignant slogan, “I can’t breathe,” drew an explicit connection between race and the... Read More
Making Your Good Place Better
Variety as our key to sustainability
In the NBC series The Good Place, Ted Danson’s character Michael is the architect of heaven, to which we humans... Read More
The Storyteller
Writer Megan Mayhew-Bergman leads sustainability into the future
Henry David Thoreau’s 200th birthday was three years ago, and trucks rumble down a four-lane highway hard by his Walden... Read More
I Will Speak, I Will Act
A soccer team puts its values before its record
“If we’re going to wear armbands, and we’re going to wear rainbow-colored [jerseys] during June and kneel before the games,... Read More
Don’t Stick to Sports, Part 2
In the WNBA, a sit-out, not a sit-in
Recently we wrote about Naomi Osaka’s ascendance, not only to triumph at the US Open but to the podium of... Read More
Against Efficiency
What Rube Goldberg is still teaching us
Unassailable evidence of a historic life: your name is synonymous with what you invented. By that definition, Rube Goldberg has... Read More
Pumping Up the Vote
The private sector goes to the polls
In the already-scarce weeks until Election Day, companies have begun to pin their branding to the issue of voting. The... Read More
Take a (Theater) Hike
Drama in the great outdoors
In our first story about live theater’s adaptation to the present circumstances, we focused on Berkshire Theatre Group’s revival of... Read More
Don’t Stick to Sports
Naomi Osaka puts the ball in our court
Unpredictable times call for unpredictable messaging, and therefore unpredictable messengers. Over the summer, with sports on hold, athletes moved to... Read More
Go Big Or Go Home
A new TBS show is chock-full of thrills & chills
The Turner television trio recently announced a new program, Go-Big Show, to premiere on WTBS in 2021. It’s now in... Read More
Prepare Ye: A Pandemic Production of Godspell
The show goes on, and goes outdoors
Probably no art form has taken a bigger hit this year than live theater. The music can play on(line), painters... Read More