The World We Share

By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Hollywood director Darren Aronofsky has been awarded a best original screenplay award for his movie Noah by an online,  climate-themed movie awards program I am curating called the Cli Fi Movie Awards, dubbed “The Cliffies.” Aronofsky’s writing partner Ari Handel co-wrote the screenplay and received the award as well. He

By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –Take a team of writers in Brooklyn and give them a small yet important assignment: Write an illustrated children’s book about global warming and climate change and what kids can do to help. That’s exactly what an “all-in-the-family” writing team did, using the storytelling traditions they grew up with,

By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — When Rabbi Jeffrey Newman in the UK — Emeritus Rabbi at the Finchley Reform Synagogue — shoots you an email from his office in England and it lands in your inbox with a special “ping” to it, you know it’s about something important and deserves prompt attention. Rabbi

By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Hollywood has a calendar full of movie and TV awards shows, from the Oscars to the Golden Globes, and with a dozen other awards on tap as well. There’s even the Razzies — The Golden Raspberry Awards– for the worst movies in each year’s hefty bag of cinema

By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Diane Ackerman is the author of a new non-fiction book, set to be published by Norton Books this fall, in which she delves into an important cultural awakening currently taking place. The title of her book says it all. In a mere 200 years, humans have changed the

By Dan Bloom   CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Richard Friedman, an Ohio man who uses some of his free time to pen warnings about climate change issues, is the author of a novel,  Escape from Canamith, and while it’s part sci fi and fantasy, it also fits neatly into the rising new genre  of climate