Heather Souvaine Horn

@heathershorn

A roundup of ideas for how to break fossil fuels’ hold over the country’s dysfunctional political system

An increasing number of voices are urging people to refocus on the hyperlocal when national events feel too overwhelming.

Fixing our dysfunctional food system as the planet warms will be very hard. But one easy thing is staring us right in the face.

Balmy days in February can cost us big down the road. Just ask a farmer.

From the East Palestine derailment to the gas stove backlash, our society struggles to see pollution as a real and urgent threat.

The District of Columbia City Council is considering a bill that will allow low- and moderate-income households to switch out their gas stoves—if they so choose—for free.

What’s one thing wealthy people of all nationalities have in common? Far higher emissions than the poorer people in their country.

Conservatives are hell-bent on defending gas stoves. Why not other poisonous household products?

How can the World Economic Forum earnestly pretend to address global crises while being funded by the corporations that fuel these crises?

Torrential rains, flooding, and mudslides in California are a preview of an alarming future.

Changing your personal habits won’t change the world, but there are other benefits to doing so.

It wasn’t all doom and gloom in 2022.

The same day Earthshot awarded $1.2 million to start-up Notpla and its petroleum-free seaweed packaging, negotiations to curb plastics production failed miserably.

These turkeys are miserable. These apples are threatened by fire blight. These decorative gourds are hiding the truth.

The German river, subjected to a massive nineteenth-century engineering project that facilitated coal transport, now needs engineers to intervene again due to global warming.

A new study suggests that gas stoves are poisoning people in more ways than even the experts knew. The question now is whether the gas industry has been aware of this for years.

Imagine if three-quarters of U.S. states were flooded.

Heather Booth and the Jane Collective helped thousands of people have abortions before Roe. Their example is once again relevant.

The United States has two speeds when it comes to older people: sycophancy for the powerful, contempt for everyone else.

Mark O’Connell’s book set out to explore survivalist subcultures. Then the pandemic hit.