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A construction crane crashed into the Tampa Bay Times’ office building during Hurricane Milton in October. Now, the owner of that building wants to tear it down. Times CEO Conan Gallaty already told ...
In the first installment of "Pillow Talk," Levi Lebovitz analyzes a friends dream, making sense out of apparent strangeness.
In their new course, “The Rights of Nature,” visiting Law School professor James Salzman and American History and Harvard Law School professor Jill Lepore investigate a burgeoning American ...
Although I never made the connection between my favorite movie and my passion for environmentalism until now, I’ve recognized that it's pretty obvious how countless rewatches of a movie centered ...
Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax is frequently taught in schools around Earth Day. But is it the best way to teach about today's changing climate?
In The Lorax, Dr. Suess’s parable about ecological disaster, our hero harshly informs the narrator:"I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.” ...
The Lorax continues, "I am the Lorax who speaks for the trees, which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please!" Arkansas loses highly qualified teachers every day.
In the year of the fatwa, the fuss over “The Lorax” played out differently. The Laytonville Unified School District convened a committee to consider the Baileys’ complaint.
Dr. Seuss' character, the Lorax, is 50 years old this week. And his messages are more urgent and relevant than ever.
Call it fate or an unfortunate coincidence that Dr. Seuss' eco-parable marks its 50th anniversary just as the United Nations releases a report on the dire consequences of human-induced climate change.
Call it fate or an unfortunate coincidence that Dr. Seuss' The Lorax celebrates its 50th anniversary the same week the United Nations releases an urgent report on the dire consequences of human ...