Entries by Carol Pierson Holding

McKibben’s Extreme Energy: Why Not Frack?

Bill McKibben, the environmentalist, prolific author, former New Yorker writer, and founder of grassroots green organization 350.org, wrote a review of two books and a film on hydraulic fracturing for last week’s New York Review of Books. Until I read this piece, titled “Why Not Frack?” I shared the opinions of Robert Kennedy, Jr., the Sierra Club and […]

An Alternate Diagnosis for Bleak Consumers

Originally published in the Huffington Post in September 2011, this article is just as relevant now, as consumer spending has not yet fully recovered from the Great Recession. The U.S. consumer society is built on a slew of deeply imbedded cultural norms, from keeping up with the Joneses to the idea that shopping makes you feel better to […]