Dave Cohen
Democracy, ‘drill, baby drill,’ and our cars
Dave Cohen is an integrative psychotherapist (davecohencounseling.com) specializing in approaches in mind/body modalities and ecopsychology. He also works as a consultant for Go! Vermont, providing free bike consultations for all Vermonters. Cohen's transportation work has been featured in numerous podcasts and the internationally released cargo bike documentary Motherload. He is writing a book, The Biggest Blindspot: Super-Sizing Our Bodies in a More-than-Human World.
As climate change prods, tugs, and gnaws, what’s a parent to do?
Parents just might be the sleeping giants that the moment for action on climate change has been waiting for, and a Vermont organization is bringing them together to respond
This past Halloween, I had a terrific concept for a ghoulish costume. However, before I took it a step further, I decided to pass the idea by my wife. “Do you think that will really help?” she asked. That's after I revealed that I wanted to dress up as...
What should Vermont sound like?
Our indigenous Vermont soundtrack brings meaning to place, articulates the seasons, informs us of the time of day and context, inspires our lives, and is something that nourishes us in a way that goes beyond words. It’s worth saving.
A few years ago, I went out to see the zany film The Grand Budapest Hotel. It was just my luck to sit a couple of rows in front of a man who gleefully provided a running commentary on the finer points of the movie to his partner. She...
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Our automotive culture, our disconnection with place
I had a conversation with my son recently. “So, what projects are you doing today at school?” I asked him. “What?” he responded. “Projects at school,” I repeated. “What at school?” “Projects!” Finally, frustrated, he blurted, “I can't hear!” “Pro-jects!” I screamed. “Oh - projects,” my son said. That conversation occurred as we biked to school along Western Avenue through one of those gorgeous wintery-mix mornings. My son doesn't have a hearing problem (except when we ask him to clean...
Sensory deprivation
A traditional story of the Abenaki Indian people, who have lived in Vermont for thousands of years, tells of a time when the creator finished making the Earth and all the plants and animals, then decided to fashion the A-senee-ki-wakw, a new inhabitant to join the other beings. Unfortunately, the A-senee-ki-wakw, people made of stone, were unfeeling creatures, who with their gargantuan bulk destroyed everything in their path - trees, creeks, animals, meadows - because they lacked an ability to...