It all started with a first-grade field trip to a tiny library that had once been a one-room schoolhouse.

In 1977 when I was a suburban housewife, I found Ram Dass’s landmark book Be Here Now on a friend’s shelf.

Daylight Go Away Time creeps me out. I look up from my desk and it’s afternoon outside. Five minutes later, I look up and it’s just total blackness out there.

Salt marshes are superheroes. Our coastal wetlands store flood water, absorb carbon dioxide and filter pollutants.

In the face of a global environmental crisis, last Friday the Martha’s Vineyard Commission adopted emergency climate resolutions after Phil Duffy, executive director of the Woods Hole Research Center, delivered a stark warning on global change and human suffering.