Public Intellectual

 
“BERDO is a major, necessary step for meeting climate goals”. Fig City News, January 4, 2025.

Halina Brown: BERDO is a major, necessary step for meeting climate goals.  Fig city Newton Op-Ed, January 4, 2025.


“The Fields of Green: Tax Breaks for Tony Golf Course is an Outrage”. Boston Globe Opinion, May 15, 2023.

Halina Brown, The Fields of Green: Tax Breaks for Tony Golf Course is an Outrage. The Boston Globe Opinion, May 15, 2023


“The author’s personal prejudice got in the way of her scholarship”.  Review of Ann Applebaum’s book Iron Curtain. On Amazon.com, February 2021. 

https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R23HVT3CM0N0Y8/ref=cm_cr_srp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=140009593X


Contribution to “How the rich are driving climate change” in BBC, October 27, 2021. 

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211025-climate-how-to-make-the-rich-pay-for-their-carbon-emissions


Commonwealth Magazine  . June 2020.  “How Newton Bridged the Housing Divide: Still, the Cost of this Victory Maybe High”

Contribution to “Why Some Brands Are Leading A Black Friday Boycott” in Huffington Post, May 1, 2020

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/black-friday-rei-deciem-boycott_n_5dd6e68fe4b0fb24c847a95c?0ch


“The US economy is reliant on consumer spending – can it survive a pandemic?” In The Conversation, August 13, 2020

https://theconversation.com/the-us-economy-is-reliant-on-consumer-spending-can-it-survive-a-pandemic-141244


“The Perils of Universal Basic Income.” In Great Transition Initiative, Tellus Institute, November 2020

https://www.greattransition.org/gti-forum/basic-income-brown


“Consumer Society, its Dangers and its Future.” In Czas Kultury (in Polish) and Culture Times in English , July 15, 2020.

In Polish: http://czaskultury.pl/czytanki/spoleczenstwo-konsumpcyjne-jego-zagrozenia-i-przyszlosc/

English translation:https://wordpress.clarku.edu/hbrown/2022/01/25/consumer-society-its-dangers-and-its-future/


Contribution to “The rise of “flying shame” points to a blind spot in conscious consumerism” in Quartz, April 18, 2019

https://qz.com/1598632/why-arent-eco-conscious-consumers-more-worried-about-air-travel/


Eva Alfredsson, Magnus Bengtsson, Halina Szejnwald Brown, Cindy Isenhour, Sylvia Lorek, Dimitris Stevis & Philip Vergragt.  2018. “Why achieving the Paris Agreement requires reduced overall consumption and production.” Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 14, 1-5.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15487733.2018.1458815