Archive for the ‘Earth Day’ Category

We need garbage equity and improve regulation of toxins

By Gavin Kearney, Director, Environmental Justice, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest The 40th anniversary of the first Earth Day is upon us and I have to admit to some ambivalence. On the positive side, Earth Day can provide a useful platform for educating and engaging the public around critical...

April 22nd, 2010 | Earth Day, Environmental, Featured | Read More

Plastics on my mind

By Rebecca Johnson, Urban Ecology Blog It was really late on a Friday night in New Orleans. We had started our evening celebration with a Bring the Musicians Home concert featuring the brass funk band Bonearama. I had heard a cut from their new CD, Hard Times. It was a remake of Memphis Minnie’s...

April 22nd, 2010 | Earth Day, Environmental, Featured | Read More

Mercy, mercy me: The ecology

Judy Hatcher, Executive Director, Environmental Support Center I remember patchouli oil, macramé plant-hangers, bell-bottom jeans and oil shortages. Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder sang about air pollution. Recycling was an exciting new concept. In high school, I learned about conservation and...

April 22nd, 2010 | Earth Day, Featured | Read More

Tribal Sovereignty is jeopardized by climate crisis: invokes pathways for honorable community engagement

Michele “Shelly” Vendiola, Communications Facilitator, Swinomish Climate Change Initiative “Mother earth has a fever, she is very sick.” Carrie Dann, Elder, Western Shoshone Defense Project In 1961 President Dwight Eisenhower spoke of the military industrial complex as the trilogy of...

April 22nd, 2010 | Earth Day, Featured | Read More

Towards “Justainability”: A Colored Perspective on the Green Economy

By Penn Loh, Professor, Tuffs University and Kalila Barnett, Executive Director of Alternatives for Community and Environment Green is “in” and here to stay. Not even the most powerful political and economic players can ignore the risks of climate change. In fact, the largest companies in the world...

April 22nd, 2010 | Earth Day, Environmental, Featured | Read More

Too much water or not enough water

By Denise Perry, Executive Director, Power U Center, Miami My great-grandmother was tuned into her surroundings and guess what, she didn’t have the Internet, the Weather Channel or access to the latest scientific studies. When she was in her 90’s she told my mother, “They better stop putting all...

April 22nd, 2010 | Earth Day, Environmental, Featured | Read More

Did we learn any lessons from the hurricanes in the past five years?

By Leslie G. Fields, National Environmental Justice Director, Sierra Club The year 2010 marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, but later this year we will also arrive at the fifth anniversary of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Much has been written about the devastation of those hurricanes, but have there...

April 22nd, 2010 | Earth Day, Environmental, Featured | Read More