Elizabeth Poreba

Aug 26, 2024 | commonwealmagazine.org | Elizabeth Poreba |Paul Moses |Nick Fagnant |Jonathan Malesic

There I am nursing grievances, washing the dishes,calculating my steps, my pulse, my innermost thoughts,writing checks, poems, petitions, buying wine by the box—while humble, slimy, not discernibly dissatisfied,and carbon negative, they are aerating,feeding, defecating, through muck and drought—…contributing to the world’s grain harvest as much as Russia.

Apr 22, 2024 | timesunion.com | Elizabeth Poreba

Sometimes I think of Earth Day as a faintly sad Mother’s Day, when uncaring children who rarely visit show up with a bedraggled potted plant. For a while after Earth Day, certain sections of our highways might be cleaner, newly planted trees might bud, and the flowers outside town halls might look cheery, but let’s face it — this parent-child relationship has run amok.  We have not only persisted with activities that are causing Earth much distress, we have doubled down on them.