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July 7, 2010
Credit: Corey Templeton/FlickrIt’s been a long wait for the summer cherries but here in New York they’ve finally made their appearance, ready for pies (and speaking of...
June 30, 2010
Wesleyan students laying down plastic to fend off weeds. Credit: WesleyingAs I got ready to leave college for the summer, I noticed a new trend among my friends when it...
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September 2, 2010
Tuesday’s Washington Post featured an exceptionally well-written, extended article by reporter Dan Zak about a day in DC’s Trinidad neighborhood. Trinidad is a long-disinvested part of the city’s northeastern quadrant, and in many ways it is ripe for recovery. In fact, transition is already becoming visible, so that the community provides a vivid portrait of renewal’s components, hopes and fears. From Zak’s article:
“Hardly an oasis,...
September 2, 2010
One email instantly caught my eye this morning as I checked my email, “It's time to show your support for bottled water,” the email boldly declared.
My first reaction was a combination of amazement and laughter. The email shouldn’t have surprised me -- after all it was a press release from the International Bottled Water Association (IBWA), the lobbying arm of the billion-dollar bottled water industry. It’s their job to protect their funders—no matter how much pollution and waste they...
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September 1, 2010
Food writer Frederick Kaufman isn’t shy about attacking the role of big business in food production. His July cover story for Harper's was subtitled “How Goldman Sachs and Wall Street Starved Millions and Got Away With It” (tell us what you really think, Fred). So when he penned a feature story for OnEarth’s Fall 2010 issue that demonstrates how megafarms could help lead the way to global sustainability (see “What’s New for Dinner”), people who care about food and farming took notice -- although some of them had...
September 1, 2010
Michigan, historical home to America's auto industry, is known for cars. And traffic jams, potholes, and urban sprawl that practically forces people to drive. But the power of the Detroit Three major automakers must be slipping, because the state is planning for more passenger rail service.One example is WALLY, short for the Washtenaw and Livingston Line, a proposed 28-mile commuter rail line that would connect Ann Arbor and Howell.Projections are that 1,300 people would ride each weekday, averting 50,000 miles of...
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