A vast volume of data exists to demonstrate that our current system of agriculture is unsustainable. The mass conversion of the Earth’s terrestrial area to farmland has resulted in many of these regions becoming carbon sources rather than carbon sinks. In addition, the land and resources we have devoted to agriculture mainly go towards producing …
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Earlier this month, McDonald’s announced the launch of the McPlant, a lineup of plant-based meats that will be released into select markets next year. Finally the fast food giant will make a vegan burger available in the US after it tested the “PLT” (plant, lettuce, and tomato) in Ontario in 2018, and has plant-based offerings …
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The labor movement and environmental groups have collaborated on numerous projects in the past, and the early history of blue-green relations was documented in the last post. We left off with the fantastic success of the world’s first Earth Day in 1970, to which both types of organizations contributed. During the course of the 1970s, …
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My area of research is collaboration and communication between environmental groups and labor unions, collectively called blue-green relations. In this two part series (can a 2-part thing be called a series?), we will delve into the intertwined story of these two major forces in American history. Jobs versus the environment messages are everywhere in the …
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Just a brief note about a cool story from a warm state (although it wasn’t too warm a few weeks ago when there were iguanas falling from the trees: https://time.com/5091036/frozen-iguanas-florida/ ). If you grew up in the 2000s, as I did, then you may have read the book “Hoot” by Carl Hiaasen for school. Essentially, …
Once upon a time, there was a beautiful valley in the northwestern part of Yosemite National Park known as Hetch Hetchy Valley. Today, there lies a reservoir in this part of Yosemite. The story of how Hetch Hetchy Valley was transformed involves a bitter debate between the two major factions of the environmental movement in …
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