Chris Bolgiano — Transition Voice

About Chris Bolgiano

Mildly amusing nature writer Chris Bolgiano has written dozens of nature and travel articles for Wilderness Magazine, American Forests, Sierra, Audubon, the New York Times, Washington Post, and many other publications. Two of her five books have won prizes. After retiring from her day job as a librarian/archivist, she produced a documentary history of home-town Fulks Run Ruritan Club as a community service project.

Snug and smug with solar power: keeping on the sunny side of the storms

So hate me. All around me, millions of people are losing electric power as trees and other inappropriate objects crash down on powerlines. It doesn’t matter anymore what storm it is. At least three recent storms of apocalyptic dimensions have slammed into the east coast, and more record-breaking ferocity is being predicted. Traffic lights don’t work. Stores can’t process credit and debit cards. Gas stations can’t pump gas. Roads are blocked and relief supplies can’t get through. … [Read more...]

Electric power to the people!

bus with "off the grid" painted on the side

It's a gorgeous day full of singing birds and sunlight. Beautiful, streaming sunlight. Soon the photovoltaic system that added some aggression to my passive solar house in the mountains of western Virginia will be one year old, the time of reckoning. Getting off the grid has always been nirvana for 1970s back-to-the-landers like me. With net-metering - a 21st century update of the dream - I am still connected, selling excess electricity in summer when the sun is high, and buying … [Read more...]

Readers and authors talk

Elisabeth J. Potts on Climate collision course: CO2 levels about to hit 400 ppm » As of this week, we have already reached the 400ppm milestone. Here's the thing: We all need some sp...

Ed Johnson on Roundup of distressing climate news » Thank you all for your comments and commitments. I too sense this with out all the research backgrou...

Lee Samelson on The climate change mountaintop » It seems like the stages occur in reverse order for climate hawks Climate hawks or climate activists...

Steve on For sale, habitable planet, too late » Doug, I am in a similar place to you, I think. I have probably never really faced up to the reality ...