Posted by Brandi Colander in Environmental Justice , The Media and the Environment
Yesterday, Van Jones announced that he will be joining the Center for American Progress, taking a teaching position at Princeton University as a fellow in the Center for African American Studies and at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and...
Posted by Brandi Colander in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Far too often, we hear cries of NIMBY: NOT IN MY BACKYARD! Well, with the recent birth of IOBY: environmental action is fostered and encouraged to occur precisely IN OUR BACKYARDS! ioby.org (pronounced eye-OH-be) enables you to support neighborhood level...
Posted by Brandi Colander in Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Nuclear Weapons, Waste and Energy , Solving Global Warming
Often overlooked, the agricultural sector is particularly sensitive to fluctuating energy costs and demands. Take California for example, it takes 4% of the state's electricity in order to produce, process, and store approximately 200 food and fiber crops. There is...
