Trading fiction for the truth:

Two years ago my husband and I began Baby Clock Meets Global Warming. We created somewhat fictitious characters, a husband and wife, who were trying to decide whether to bring a baby into the world. The blog was our way to explore questions and ideas about human reproduction and its undeniable relationship to climate change, peak oil, human over-population, and worldwide economic contraction. Our question: should we bring a baby into a world as troubled as this one?

Neither my husband nor I found the fictitious approach particularly useful and this blog fell silent after only six posts. Our lives and interests have continued to evolve over the last year and a half, but our desire remains to engage with the huge planetary challenges before us.

So we are back, promising to post somewhat regularly on issues as we see them unfolding, and very interested in what those who read our posts might say in response.

We are in our fifties. We live in the American heartland. We are raising a young son (I did indeed become a mother, but not until I was 41). And we are interested in exploring how our personal decisions lessen or increase the larger problems of over-consumption, human effects on the planet, energy use and energy production, climate change, and related topics as they arise.

We believe that the planet's problems currently create a nexus--of opportunity or danger. We hope that by considering these possibilities we become part of choices that heal our planet, in whatever small way we are able.

The new name for our blog is: Work the Problem. We hope you will become part of the conversation.