a journal of reflective environmental practice
by Gary Paul NabhanGuest Contributor I. When plans for the first Earth Day caught my attention in the fall of 1969, I was a curly-haired, sleepy-headed Lebanese-American seventeen year-old who had met only one other Arab-American who called himself an environmentalist: Ralph…
It’s January, so perhaps you made a New Year’s resolution to go deeper with your environmental activism this year, and perhaps you also wanted to read more. If either or both of these apply to you (and even if they don’t), I…
Originally posted on June 12, 2017 by Cherice Bock Editor, Whole Terrain With recent news about alleged “disappearances” of Chinese activists working at factories producing Ivanka Trump’s line of shoes, as well as President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accords, citing economic “unfairness”…
Originally posted on May 30, 2016 by Cherice Bock Editor, Whole Terrain We’ve known for 30 years that race is a stronger predictor than economic status of proximity to toxic waste and other industrial pollutants. The work of Robert Bullard (“Solid Waste Sites and the Black Houston…
