Does containing climate change come at the expense of California’s most...
Does containing climate change come at the expense of poor people and people of color in California? According to a statewide coalition of environmental justice advocates, the answer is yes....
View ArticleWhat does the tobacco industry have in common with greenhouse gas polluters?
What does the tobacco industry have in common with greenhouse gas polluters? According to lawyer Brent Newell, the answer is conspiracy. Newell is one of the lawyers involved in the case of Native...
View ArticleWhat do people from California have in common with people from Chiapas?
What do people from California have in common with people from Chiapas? Read Jeff Conant’s latest article on AlterNet today to find out! Be sure to check out the slideshow that accompanies it too –...
View ArticleThe week that was
This week I: - saw a banana slug on my way to class – the first one I’ve seen since I’ve been able to call the banana slug my school mascot! - made a loaf of rye buttermilk bread from this newly...
View ArticleSlideshow: Happy People’s Earth Day!
Today I celebrated People’s Earth Day in good Bay Area fashion, with a protest! After environmental justice leaders met inside with officials to present these demands, I joined 65 environmental and...
View ArticleValentine’s Day and Fossil Fuels
If you’ve ever been to a workshop on how to write an op-ed, you’ll know that the leaders spend a lot of time talking about the need for your piece to have a “hook.” This usually means finding a way to...
View ArticleTeaching Environmental Inequality: Watching “Come Hell or High Water: The...
This is the second in a series of blog posts about the Environmental Inequality class I taught this fall. The first post shared the class syllabus and research project. This post covers a movie I’ve...
View ArticleInterview: Book chapter on California-Chiapas-Acre climate change policy
My colleague Aaron Soto-Karlin and I are wrapping up final revisions on a book chapter for inclusion in Sustainability Now! Sustainability How? Situating Sustainabilities through Interdisciplinarity...
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