Halfway through Agnès Varda’s 2000 film The Gleaners and I, a judge in full regalia stands in a field of newly harvested tomatoes and reads an edict from 1554 that authorizes “the poor, the wretched, and the underprivileged to go to the fields after the harvest, from sunrise to sundown, and glean leftover fruit and vegetables.” The artists David Allen Burns and Austin Young of Fallen Fruit have joyfully adopted the ancient practice of gleaning and brought it to contemporary urban neighborhoods.Read More

The evidence of rapidly changing climate conditions around the world and the messages of successive scientific assessments since 1990 have not yet led to hard policy decisions and actions. Preliminary analysis suggests that anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions in 2021 have fully rebounded after their pandemic-related temporary reduction in 2020. We therefore must ask the inconvenient question of whether the science-based warming limits of the Paris Agreement are still within reach.Read More