Saturday November 14, 2009

restoring the ecuadorian amazon with mycoremediation

Macrolepiota procera [image: Wikipedia]

Between 1964 and 1992, Texaco (now Chevron) dumped over 18.5 billion gallons of oil in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Birth defects, cancer rates and general malaise are exceedingly common in the city of Lago

Categories: blog environment health Tags: environment health mushrooms permaculture petroleum pollution social justice soil water

Thursday October 15, 2009

care to make a difference: blog action day 09

This post is part of Blog Action Day ’09

Floods, droughts, super storms – these are not the things of fantasy, of Hollywood blockbuster disaster films. They are real. And real people who live off the land

Categories: action blog community Tags: climate change humanitarian social justice

Friday August 28, 2009

now see this! crude, sweet crude

We all know by now that petroleum is poison and that it’s time to move on to cleaner & more ethical forms of fuel, right? Well, I guess not everyone is getting the message, including of

Categories: blog community energy Tags: petroleum politics pollution social justice

Monday July 13, 2009

no hunger

As someone who eats on a very regular basis, never in want of food, I cannot fathom what it is like to wonder where my next meal is coming from. When I am hungry, I go

Categories: blog eating food/drink health movies Tags: climate change eating food justice humanitarian social justice

Wednesday April 15, 2009

land, people, food… happy days

Not exactly. This isn’t your abuela’s garden. The Garden follows a South Central LA community fighting to keep their 14-acre garden. The trailer alone was enough to get me riled up about the “powers that be.”

Categories: blog movies Tags: food justice social justice urban agriculture

Friday January 23, 2009

stop gas flaring in nigeria

At the same time Chevron runs ads urging you to “leave the car at home more,” it is wasting massive amounts of natural gas by burning it in the open air. In Nigeria, these poisonous

Categories: action blog energy environment Tags: pollution social justice

Monday November 10, 2008

climate refugees

Writing from Sydney, Australia.

This post is part of Bloggers Unite for Refugees, BlogCatalog’s blog action event, November 10. (Though for me, in Australia, it’s already November 11.)

What comes to mind when you hear the word “refugee”?

Categories: blog environment health Tags: climate change humanitarian social justice