Greenfire Coalition Writer's Forum
Organic Farming Is the Present & Future
Michael Sauers May 12, 2025 As I travel the countryside, I am noticing farmers, highway departments, lawn care companies and just regular folks applying fungicides, insecticides, herbicides and chemical fertilizers everywhere. Have they lost their minds? Are they...
AI, Cryptocurrency and Data Centers
A Modern Day Three Headed Beast Michael Sauers May 11, 2025 The lunatics who want to know, record, analyze, market, contrive and control every aspect of our lives are inching forward at lightning speed. Like Cerberus, Chimera, Azi Dahaka and other three headed...
An Abundance of Impeachable Offenses
Michael Sauers May 7, 2025 Trump has committed 22 impeachable offenses. These should be pursued ASAP. Article1 Stripping a certain category of children born in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof of their birthright citizenships Article 2...
Summoning Our Better Angels
Michael Sauers May 5, 2025 I'm 75. That makes me part of a generation that once stood, at least in my mind, for changing the world. Not all but many of us pursued justice. Our music, clothes, swagger, opposition to Vietnam, quest for education and defiance of the...
More Alike Than We Think
Susan Gallagher May 5, 2025 When almost everyone has chosen a side in the nationwide battle of "us" and "them", it's hard to remember that we do indeed have many shared values. If you ever need a reminder that those values are alive and well, in abundance, I...
NIMBY’s ? Maybe Uneasy Folks? Probably
Michael Sauers May 2,2025 It is difficult to watch the hand-wringing and gnashing of teeth regarding the PP&L Electric Utilities proposed 500kV double-circuit transmission line scheduled to run through the "Valley". Up until now, the Valley has remained...
Earth Day, Come and Gone
Michael Sauers April 23, 2025 Earth Day is a bust. It has been reduced to people cleaning garbage along roadsides. Whoopie! Environmental activism is a mere whimper. Climate change is already upon us and is/will continue to have drastic effects for centuries to...
Blind As Bats, Dumb As Doorknobs
Michael Sauers April 22, 2025 Many people cannot or choose not to see any farther than their noses. Many people cannot or choose not to hear anything beyond their thoughts. Many people cannot or choose not to speak, especially to power. I do not exclude myself....
Ready to Fight!!!!!!!
Michael Sauers April 16, 2025 For as long as I can remember I have had to fight off, one way or another, the tentacles of condescension, contempt, prejudice and hate. My Dad was a community organizer, activist and politician. He stuck his neck out often and was...
Hello, Sunrise Movement!
Michael Sauers April 16, 2025 Welcome to the Sunrise Movement at Commonwealth University, formally Bloomsburg University. They are a local chapter of the national Sunrise Movement. Dedicated to stopping the climate crisis and creating millions of good paying jobs...