by John Cronin | Mar 20, 2015 | Health, Homelessness, Human Sustainability, Law & Policy, Poverty
What’s wrong with this public bench? It prevents this: The internationally famous, 87-year old Strand Bookstore in New York City’s Greenwich Village calls itself “a community bookstore first and foremost.” In 2013, it installed a sprinkler system that...
by John Cronin | Jan 19, 2015 | Ecology, Environmental Justice, Ethics, Human Sustainability, Pollution, Poverty
James Gustave Speth: If there is a model it is the civil rights revolution of the 1960s. It had a dream. The dream of modern American environmentalism was founded on the dream of the American civil rights movement. You would not know it today. In his April 16, 1963...
by John Cronin | Jan 6, 2015 | Law & Policy, Pollution, Water
“It is the national goal that the discharge of pollutants into the navigable waters be eliminated by 1985.” ~ 1972 Federal Clean Water Act, Section 101(a)(1)
by John Cronin | Dec 24, 2013 | Ethics, Law & Policy, Sustainability
Environment is all of America and its problems . . . It is a hungry child in a land of affluence. It is housing that is not worthy of the name. — U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson, founder of Earth Day, April 22, 1970.[col grid=”2-1″] “Annie”*...