Answering 7 Charges of Animal Cruelty Against Muslims
I was in high school when my parents bought a goat in 1984, Pakistan. I named it, fed it, walked it, and then within a week, witnessed it getting slaughtered. It was a heart-wrenching experience at...
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Business Journalists Rush to Rescue Chevron From Its Ecuador Disaster
Reposted from Eye on the Amazon (by @kevinmkoenig) On the run from a landmark $9.5 billion judgment in Ecuador, fighting enforcement actions in three countries that threaten strategic company assets,...
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Protecting the Southeast Side and All of Chicago
Overdue credit was given last night. At their annual dinner, the Illinois Environmental Council rightly cast a bright spotlight on the work of the Southeast Environmental Task Force as their...
View ArticleConnecting the Dots...
I've been at it again -- connecting the dots between faith and climate change. Some who have followed my posts may call it an obsession. This time, though, the events triggering my thoughts and...
View ArticleBreaking News: Critical Courtroom Victory to Benefit Millions of Egg-Laying Hens
I'm excited to share with you today an eagerly awaited and vitally important federal court victory for farm animals. A federal judge in California yesterday dismissed a challenge to California's...
View ArticleEffects of Climate Change in My Backyard
Sunday morning, September 21, Rita Renee Toll-Dubois and her lifelong partner Ranger Jean Rogers of Lynn, quietly boarded one of the many Cambridge buses heading to the People's Climate Change Marchin...
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The Numbers Continue to Crunch the Pebble Mine
Facts -- for example, numbers -- have never been a friend to the Pebble Mine. By now, some of these are familiar to all of us: 10 billion -- The number of tons of mining waste laced with toxics that...
View ArticleBig Beverage vs. The Environment: The Battlefield in Massachusetts
It seems that it was just yesterday that people drank water from bubblers, and that buying a cold drink meant buying Coke, Pepsi, or 7-Up. But over the past 30 years, there has been a huge shift in...
View ArticleClimate Marchers Bring the Heat on Carbon
On a beautiful evening in early September, I rode my bike out to Shelli Mullin's Organic Farm in Elburn, IL to meet the 30 or so marchers who were camping there for the night. They had covered 16.8...
View ArticleMonths After Chemical Spill in West Virginia, Chemical Industry Pours Money...
Nine months after a massive chemical spill in my home state of West Virginia contaminated the water supply for 300,000 residents, a new report out this week shows that the American Chemistry Council...
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Redesigning Innovation
To meet the challenge of sustainability, architects need to reinvent how they work. On October 9 in New York is Architectural Record's annual Innovation Conference. This raises a question: What does...
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Grand Central Terminal Award Highlights Big Opportunity to Upgrade Historic...
ALL IMAGES © 2014 Maya Albanese Photography, All Rights Reserved. The main hall of Grand Central sees 750,000 people through their daily commutes, more people than live in the state of Alaska. Grand...
View ArticleWhat American Environmentalists Can Learn From Prime Minister Modi
A Discourse of Character Not Consequence Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rock-star love-fest with the American Indian diaspora at Madison Square Garden last week was hardly a policy address -- Modi's...
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20 Years, Yet EPA Still Fails to Protect Us From Polluting Incinerators
An industrial incinerator, as viewed from a church playground in Midlothian, Texas. (Photo courtesy of Samantha Bornhorst) Joe Poole Lake is a popular destination for Dallas and Fort Worth residents...
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The Climate March: Beyond Asking Those Beholden to the Wrong People to Do the...
Part I of II Two truths: The People's Climate March was an amazing and valuable achievement. The People's Climate March was a powerful exercise in a nearly powerless strategy. Who, among those with an...
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Why Is Mayor De Blasio Breaking 4 Promises Within 400 Yards of His Own Home?...
Breaking the Education Promise It is known that the brain's capacity to learn is improved by exercise. It is also known that young lungs, breathing extra fast during exercise, are especially...
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Climate Change - Through the Looking Glass
We look upon this world through glass - it is like we are observing devastating climatic changes on another planet. Attempts to communicate the science of climate change in order to promote awareness...
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Meatless Monday: Love by the Ladleful With "Love Soup" Author Anna Thomas
I'm a believer in soup, but "Love Soup" author Anna Thomas is its high priestess. Her book offers 160 different meatless recipes organized according to seasons, so you taste the benefit of what's fresh...
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Remembering the Human Scale in Walkable City Neighborhoods
Have you ever noticed how those of us who promote walkable, “smart growth” city neighborhoods often choose historic districts to illustrate what we advocate? Take the photo at the top of this...
View ArticleThe Transition to Renewable Energy Is Difficult But Feasible
The United States Energy Information Agency estimates that 11 percent of the world's total energy comes from renewable sources, a number they project will grow modestly to 15 percent by 2040. They also...
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