Leslie Garrett, Author at Bluedot Living

Amalgamated Is Banking on the Climate Future

Leslie Garrett — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 19:22:34 +0000

Conceived in 1923 by the leader of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Amalgamated Bank was created to provide a safe place for workers — often immigrants — to put their money and have access to financial products and services that they might otherwise be denied, including unsecured loans and a foreign exchange service to […]

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Climate Conversation with Bill McKibben

Leslie Garrett — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 20:09:59 +0000

Writer, organizer and climate activist, Bill McKibben recently visited Martha's Vineyard to talk about Third Act — his latest initiative for those over age sixty.

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In A Word: Speciesism

Leslie Garrett — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 16:33:37 +0000

Speciesismnoun: spe·cies·ism ˈspē-shēz-ˌi-zəm Speciesism. Try to say that five times. Or once. It doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, does it? While it might sound a bit like someone speaking with marbles in their mouth, in fact, speciesism is more about someone with a chunk of cow in their mouth, or perhaps chicken, or octopus. […]

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In A Word: Shivelight

Leslie Garrett — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 16:59:06 +0000

Shivelightnoun:ˈshīv ˈlīt Perhaps it’s been raining, and the forest smells fresh and scrubbed clean. The sun is now high in the sky, and as you venture deeper into the trees and the foliage above you thickens, you notice that the sun’s shafts slip through the canopy like glittering swords. You can picture it, can’t you? […]

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Keeping Lake Tahoe Blue

Leslie Garrett — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 18:33:08 +0000

In late 1954, Dwight D. Eisenhower was in the White House, Roger Bannister had broken the four-minute mile, and Alexander Cochrane Cushing had a fanciful idea. Cushing was the co-founder of what was then called the Squaw Valley* ski area, a small resort on the western shore of Lake Tahoe that offered some of the […]

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In A Word: Rewilding

Leslie Garrett — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 13:55:11 +0000

“We must rewild the world,” said none other than Sir David Attenborough, natural historian and creator of iconic nature documentaries. Which means … what exactly? I think back on a winter visit to Jackson, Wyoming, where an elk was window shopping in the town square, and to the Bangkok market where I watched a monkey […]

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In A Word: Pleniplessence

Leslie Garrett — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 19:19:35 +0000

Perhaps you’ve experienced it standing in front of a staggering number of yogurt containers, all of which look roughly the same but seem to promise not only different contents, but also different benefits and virtues. Or maybe it took you down when you were trying to select unique drawer pulls for your newly constructed home […]

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In Mexico’s Playa Viva, Visitors Help Protect Sea Turtles

Leslie Garrett — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 15:55:27 +0000

If there was a soundtrack to my family’s trip to Playa Viva on the Pacific coast of Mexico, it would be little more than the pound of surf on the shore. Without doors or windows in our “treehouse” accommodations, we fell asleep to the waves, we woke up to the waves, and we talked over […]

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Flight School: How to Reduce Your Eco-Impact from Flying

Leslie Garrett — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 20:06:55 +0000

Wondering how to choose an eco-friendly flight? Bluedot Living's Leslie Garrett shares her best tips for greening up your travel game: Fly less. Seriously. When time/distance allows, take a train, a bus, a car. If you must fly, book economy. First-class generates two to four times the emissions of economy. Fly direct, non-stop when possible. […]

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In A Word: Psychogeology

Leslie Garrett — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 19:45:44 +0000

I cannot offer you a dictionary definition of psychogeology because the word is not in the dictionary. What I can do is tell you that the author who coined the term, Kim Stanley Robinson, wanted a word to define how we are shaped by the places where we live or have spent time. Psycho, as […]

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