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WALLIS ON DEMOCRACY AND ECOSOCIALISM: TWO URGENT BOOKS FOR A WORLD COMING UNHINGED

Written by JOE RAMSEY Posted September 18, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Books

The labor and ecological movements must converge, Wallis argues, despite a fraught history pitting “Jobs” against “the Environment.”

Filed Under: A+E, Books Tagged With: #CoveringClimateNow, Alternatives for Community and Environment, Bill McKibben, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, climate crisis, climate crisis issue, Columbia Journalism Review, Covering Climate Now, Democracy Denied, Environment, environmental reporting, Falter, global warming, Green New Deal, Jason Pramas, Koch brothers, Logan Airport, Lyft, Mass Department of Public Utilities, pollution, Red-Green Revolution, Special Climate Crisis Issue, The Nation, Uber, Victor Wallis

BARELY A GLIMMER OF HOPE: MCKIBBEN LOOKS AT WHAT COULD BE THE END OF ‘THE HUMAN GAME’ IN ‘FALTER’

Written by ED MEEK Posted September 18, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Books, DigThis, LISTINGS

“By most accounts, we’ve used more energy and resources during the last thirty-five years than in all of human history.”

Filed Under: A+E, Books, DigThis, LISTINGS Tagged With: #CoveringClimateNow, Alternatives for Community and Environment, Bill McKibben, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, climate crisis, climate crisis issue, Columbia Journalism Review, Covering Climate Now, Environment, environmental reporting, Falter, global warming, Green New Deal, Jason Pramas, Koch brothers, Logan Airport, Lyft, Mass Department of Public Utilities, pollution, Special Climate Crisis Issue, The Nation, Uber

THE CLIMATE MOVEMENT TO COME: HOW CAN WE BUILD THE MAJORITARIAN SOCIAL FORCE WE NEED TO SLOW GLOBAL WARMING?

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted September 18, 2019 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

If brilliant Boston and the supposedly clever state surrounding it can’t get their climate remediation and preparedness acts together, how are less wealthy parts of the country supposed to manage the job?

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #CoveringClimateNow, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, climate crisis, climate crisis issue, Columbia Journalism Review, Covering Climate Now, Environment, environmental reporting, global warming, Jason Pramas, Logan Airport, Lyft, Mass Department of Public Utilities, pollution, Special Climate Crisis Issue, The Nation, Uber

SPECIAL FEATURE: THE NEW POLLUTANTS

Written by VINCENT GABRIELLE Posted August 9, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES

A growing body of research suggests that, in and around traffic, what you can’t see may be killing you

Filed Under: FEATURES Tagged With: BINJ, Boston, Cambridge, Chinatown, Denise Provist, EPA, history, I-93, I93, McGrath Highway, pollution, SOMERVILLE, Somerville News Garden, ultrafine, urban renewal

HOW THE GOP SCREWED CYCLISTS WITH ITS TAX SCHEME

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted December 26, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader

That’s right, in a move that will save the federal government a mere estimated $5 million a year—and as part of an overall overhaul that will, by all trustworthy accounts, deliver more to the haves at the expense of have-nots—the Trump army is removing the tax incentive to cycle to work.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader Tagged With: bikes, biking, cycle, GOP tax plan, green, pollution, taxes, Trump, work

HURRICANE HARVEY: EYES OF THE STORM

Written by DIG STAFF Posted September 5, 2017 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

“We’re still running and gunning here with some really tired people—some of whom still can’t get through the floodwaters to get into the office and are working remotely.”

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: AAN, alternative weeklies, Boston Marathon Bombing, Houston, Houston Press, Hurricane Harvey, independent journalism, New Orleans, pollution, smell, stench, Texas

GE BOSTON DEAL: THE MISSING MANUAL

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted January 18, 2016 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Some of the many details the corporate media isn’t telling you.

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #makeGEpay, #mapoli, Apparent Horizon, BINJ, Boston, business, Charlie Baker, GE, heliport, Hub, Innovation District, Jason Pramas, Life Sciences, mainstream media, Marty Walsh, Massachusetts, pollution, propaganda

WEN, THE LEVEE, BREAKS: A CONVERSATION WITH AUTHOR WEN STEPHENSON ABOUT HIS NEW BOOK ON CLIMATE JUSTICE

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted October 7, 2015 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

We asked Wen about what he describes as “waking up, individually and collectively, to the climate catastrophe that is upon us."

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Big Green, Bill McKibben, climate justice, Environment, Interview, Keystone XL, Massachusetts, media, pollution, protests, The Nation, Wen Stephenson, What We're Fighting for Now is Each Other

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