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THE CANOPY ECONOMY: WHERE CANNABIS OVER-CAPACITY MEETS THE FUNERAL INDUSTRY

Written by DAVID RABINOVITZ Posted February 19, 2020 Filed Under: COLUMNS, LIFESTYLE, Talking Joints Memo

Recompose perfected a process where the recently deceased body is cleaned, wrapped in a shroud, and placed in a tube on a soft bed of wood chips, straw, nitrogen, and alfalfa sprouts.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, LIFESTYLE, Talking Joints Memo Tagged With: Beacon Hill, burial, cannabis, Cannabis Control Commission, CCC, death, funeral industry, human composting, Massachusetts, Recompose, Seattle

RECYCLING FOLLOW-UP: THE ROAD TO ZERO

Written by COLE ROSENGREN Posted July 2, 2019 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Despite a relative win for recycling workers, living wage advocates pledge to keep on fighting

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: ACE, ACORN, Activism, Boston, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Cambridge, casella, charlestown, curbside recycling, Dorothy Kelly Gay, Fight For 15, Fighting for a Living Wage, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, Joe Curtatone, KTI Recycling, labor, living wage, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health, MassCOSH, mayor curtatone, mayor Marty Walsh, menino, New York, OSHA, recology, recyclable, recycling, Seattle, SOMERVILLE, Stephanie Luce, Teamsters, union, wages, workplace safety, zero waste

WILL BOSTON SET A NEW REGIONAL PRECEDENT AND FINALLY PAY RECYCLING WORKERS A LIVING WAGE?

Written by COLE ROSENGREN Posted April 12, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

For the first time in the city’s history, Boston’s living wage ordinance might finally get applied to low-paid workers sorting the city’s recycling ...

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: ACE, ACORN, Activism, Boston, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Cambridge, casella, charlestown, curbside recycling, Dorothy Kelly Gay, Fight For 15, Fighting for a Living Wage, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, Joe Curtatone, KTI Recycling, labor, living wage, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health, MassCOSH, mayor curtatone, mayor Marty Walsh, menino, New York, OSHA, recology, recyclable, recycling, Seattle, SOMERVILLE, Stephanie Luce, Teamsters, union, wages, workplace safety, zero waste

WHEEL OF TUNES: DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted October 12, 2018 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC

The indie rock icons talk Japanese typhoons, personal invites from the Cure, and that strange sadness that arrives just in time for fall.

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC Tagged With: 2018, Boston, Charly Bliss, Death Cab For Cutie, Dig, DigBoston, Electropop, Indie Rock, Interview, Music, Nick Harmer, Seattle, Thank You for Today, The Wang, Wheel of Tunes

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: LIVING ON SCRAPS

Written by COLE ROSENGREN Posted July 12, 2018 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

Boston is aiming to achieve “zero waste,” which some say can create more living-wage jobs. Is part of this lofty goal rooted in the region’s dirtiest hypocrisy?

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: ACE, ACORN, Activism, Boston, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Cambridge, casella, charlestown, curbside recycling, Dorothy Kelly Gay, Fight For 15, Fighting for a Living Wage, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, Joe Curtatone, KTI Recycling, labor, living wage, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health, MassCOSH, mayor curtatone, mayor Marty Walsh, menino, New York, OSHA, recology, recyclable, recycling, Seattle, SOMERVILLE, Stephanie Luce, Teamsters, union, wages, workplace safety, zero waste

WHEEL OF TUNES: MEGA BOG

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted January 23, 2018 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC

For our reoccurring interview series, the far-out jazz rock group talks Star Trek, bad dates, and getting blackout drunk at 14.

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC Tagged With: 2018, Boston, Destroyer, Dig, DigBoston, Erin Birgy, Happy Together, Indie Rock, Interview, Jazz, Mega Bog, Music, Seattle, The Sinclair, Wheel of Tunes

HOW THE TPP GOT ROCKED

Written by DIG STAFF Posted October 4, 2016 Filed Under: FEATURES, Interviews, MUSIC, Non-fiction

The movement (and concert) against that damn awful free trade agreement comes to Boston

Filed Under: FEATURES, Interviews, MUSIC, Non-fiction Tagged With: Boston, Clinton, Debo Band, Evan Greer, Evangeline Lilly, Fight For The Future, Foundation Movement, free trade, Mirah, Seattle, Tom Morello, TPP, trade deal, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Trump

PURRFECT POWERPUFF GIRLS: TACOCAT’S FEMINIST POP PUNK GETS CARTOONIFIED

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted April 13, 2016 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC

Seattle act Tacocat dish on their new album, feminism, and recording Cartoon Network’s newest theme song.

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC Tagged With: 2016, Boston, Boyfriends, Cambridge, Cartoon Network, Dig, DigBoston, feminism, Interview, Lost Time, middle east upstairs, Mini Dresses, Music, Pop Punk, Seattle, Tacocat, The Powerpuff Girls, Theme Song

THAT WHICH WE CALL A ROSE: JENN OF CARISSA’S WIERD ON DITCHING HER “GHETTO” MONIKER

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted October 8, 2015 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC

S frontwoman and ex-Carissa's Wierd member Jenn Champion talks about the dangers of perpetuating racial stereotypes through nicknames and beyond.

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC Tagged With: 2015, Boston, Cambridge, Carissa's Wierd, Childbirth, Dig, DigBoston, Folk Rock, Indie Rock, inman square, Interview, Jenn Champion, Lilypad, race issues, S, Seattle

LABOR REVOLT IN THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIK

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted August 24, 2015 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

"At the end of the day, the lesson will be that none of us really can live on $10 a day."

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: $15, bay area, Beacon Hill, Boston, Cambridge, Cambridge City Council, Cambridge City Hall, Campaign, labor, Los Angeles, minimum wage, Nadeem Mazen, San Francisco, Seattle

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