Author Archives: floegel

The Ice Storm

1/15/1998 – 1:34 pm

Every January for the past several years, I have sought out an editorial forum to speak about climate change. This tradition is a reactionary one; each year I find myself responding to a meteorological crisis linked to global warming. This year’s crisis was an ice storm, which locked much of the Northeast, including my house, […]

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The Inverse Law of Electoral Politics

1/8/1998 – 1:36 pm

When I first started working for Greenpeace, in 1989, I used to attend a weekly strategy session on campaign finance reform, hosted by Common Cause. I was working on issues relating to toxic pollution at the time, but everyone working in the public interest realized that if we could just get big money out of […]

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The Hard Luck Holiday

1/1/1998 – 1:38 pm

Happy New Year, the hard-luck holiday. It was ten years ago this week that I was riding around Washington, DC in a crowded car and asked my fellow travelers to share their favorite memories of past New Year celebrations. My request was followed by several minutes during which the only sound was the clatter of […]

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One From the Heart

12/25/1997 – 11:14 am

Merry Christmas. By now, I’m sure you’ve opened your gifts, eaten too many Christmas cookies and nearly burned the house down by stuffing too much wrapping paper into the fireplace at once. By now, I’m sure it’s mid-afternoon, the frenzy of morning has passed and the next batch of relatives is not due for another […]

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Twenty People, One Vote

12/18/1997 – 11:13 am

So now we approach the solstice and our days are growing short, the year draws to an end. In this season, I always find myself reflecting on the year that is passing away. Six months ago this week, as our hemisphere reached out toward the sun, I was brooding about Hong Kong. The British were […]

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Greeting of the Season

12/11/1997 – 11:12 am

I moved to Vermont a few weeks ago, away from Seattle with all of its growth and gridlock and hypercaffeination. I moved to Vermont where winter is still winter and the current one is just moving in. I look out my window and watch the slate gray sky and the stone gray water of Lake […]

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Operators Are Standing By

12/4/1997 – 11:11 am

When I was in college, I was once unable to be present during the registration period and asked my roommate to do it for me. It was for that reason that I spent the spring semester of 1981 studying Bioethics in Public Policy. It did nothing toward satisfying the requirements for my degree, but after […]

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