What guns in schools would mean for Wyoming
Jeffrey Lockwood thinks the debate over allowing guns in Wyoming schools isn't about liberal or conservative values, but rather about common decency.
Behind the Carbon Curtain: Art and Freedom in Wyoming
The artwork “Carbon Sink: What Goes Around Comes Around” on the University of Wyoming campus was quietly removed in May, just months after it's installation.
Art & Energy: Coal's reaction to 'Carbon Sink' sculpture reveals the power of art — and the essence of education
When British artist Chris Drury created the “Carbon Sink” sculpture on the University of Wyoming campus earlier this year, it’s message of coal’s spiraling environmental influence triggered some passionate response.
Six-Legged Teachers: Lessons from Locusts and Beetles
We've entered (actually, created) the Era of Homogeneity. The two greatest environmental crises of our age-mass extinction and global climate change-can be framed in terms of sameness. As the biodiversity of the planet is decreasing, our accidental and intentional movement of species between habitats is increasing. The result is that ecosystems are becoming undifferentiated. Just try to find a place on earth without rats, dandelions, house sparrows, or Argentine ants (let alone grains, cows, pigs, and chickens). At the same time, the planet is running out of cold seasons and places. And it's not just the biosphere and the atmosphere that are becoming monotonous. As we impose ecological uniformity, humans are homogenizing cultures, foods, clothing, languages, politics, and ideas.