Liza Field

LIZA FIELD: Getting Back Home

How was your summer getaway? “Trip from hell,” my neighbors reported.   They’d headed west to escape the mugginess, traffic, politics and heat of our Eastern states, hungry for clear mountain vistas,...

LIZA FIELD: Not My Job?

Environmental stewardship is everyone’s responsibility, including Congress’s. That is why I worked so diligently ... to protect the Endangered Species...

LIZA FIELD: Trees Please

  I went out to the hazel wood, Because a fire was in my head. —William Butler Yeats People...

LIZA FIELD: The Oldest Valentine

  Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going...

LIZA FIELD: Turning in Your Grave

On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.  —John Muir  Where do...

LIZA FIELD: A Gift of The Sea

It’s beach season along the old Atlantic seaboard, drawing crowds of us inlanders east like our creeks and rivers. We’re heading for the Bay,...

Outgrowing Despair

Hold on to what is good                even if it is a handful of earth.         ...

Reviving an Old American Valentine

There’s a sweetheart of an American tradition that has mostly vanished. It’s called “love of country.” But “country,” here, means more than campaign talk. At...

Clearing The Atmosphere

What will environmentalists be up to in 2016? Spur more carbon reductions, clean up the Bay, affect the vote? It’s impossible to forecast, mainly because...

The Other Carbon

Beneath the Keystone XL debate and our current oil glut, a low-impact, forgotten carbon fuel remains buried. Our nation has one of the world’s largest...

Taking Heart

“This climate stuff makes me feel like crap,” a relative told me, tossing aside some ecology mail he wanted nothing to do with. “I'm...