Tag: environmental justice
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Happy New Year!
Whew! It’s over. On Sunday night, we turned the calendar page to a new year and closed the book on 2023 – the hottest year on record by some margin. As I went skiing in New Hampshire on New Years Eve on a mountain with zero natural snow and chair lifts eerily taking me over
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Forget Single-Use. What About No-Use?
You’ve surely heard about single-use products (plastic bottles, take-out containers, etc…) and efforts to eliminate them. But what about no-use products? Yes, NO-use. Looking at the clothing industry alone, the statistics are shocking. Purchased But Never Worn Have you ever had an item sit in your closet unworn – maybe with the tag still on?
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Climate and Conflict and Children
I had an article half written about Halloween costumes. It was all about “greening” your kids’ Halloween costumes through creativity, secondhand, and networking. It’s an important topic – Halloween is often a “single use” holiday and I’d like to change that. But my heart just wasn’t in it. Last week I failed to write anything
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American Climate Corps – A Cause for Celebration
This week is going to be a short one. Just a celebration really. Today, the Biden-Harris administration announced the launch of the American Climate Corps. This job training program, which was modeled after FDR’s Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps, aims to “mobilize the next generation of clean energy, conservation and resilience workers.” There’s plenty of press
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Urban Heat Islands – a Byproduct of Redlining Made Worse by a Warming Planet
I spent a hot Saturday a couple of weeks ago walking around a local sculpture park in Lincoln, Massachusetts in the suburbs of Boston. The DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, which is owned by the Trustees of the Reservations, abuts conservation land with a vast trail network. We spent the morning wandering among the sculptures
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Big Picture – What’s Wrong with Fast Fashion
If, like me, you went to college in the early 2000s in the US, you may have spent more than a few Saturdays at Forever 21 picking out the perfect outfit for a party. But did you think anything of it when you wore that outfit one time and then dumped it because, let’s be
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There is No Climate Justice Without Racial Justice
Two years ago, I ran 4x4x48 (4 miles every 4 hours for 48 hours) to raise money for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and to honor the all too many Black lives taken by police and vigilante violence in the United States. My community (locally and nationwide) came together at a time when meeting up
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