by Michelle D. Land | Oct 28, 2015 | Animal Welfare, Homelessness, Human Sustainability
Ed. Note: Michelle D. Land, JD is director of the Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies and director of the Environmental Consortium of Colleges & Universities. This post first appeared on the Animal Blawg. ~ JC WHEN WAYNE AND HIS DOG, GONZO, SLEEEP AT...
by John Cronin | Oct 9, 2015 | Environmental Justice, Homelessness, Human Sustainability, Poverty
IN ENVIRONMENTALISM, we believe all people deserve to live in a healthy environment. When we educate about climate change, for instance, we warn of the dire physical and economic consequences that could be visited upon people, homes and communities, here and abroad,...
by John Cronin | Sep 25, 2015 | Ecology, Environmental Justice, Human Sustainability, Pollution, Poverty, Sustainability
Environmentalism should advocate for the human cause with the same ferocity it advocates for nature’s cause. CONTEMPORARY ENVIRONMENTALISM properly asserts environmental problems impose the most suffering on the poor. It is less ready to equate the crisis...
by John Cronin | Jan 14, 2015 | Homelessness, Human Sustainability, Poverty, Water
Lava Mae Delivers Dignity One Shower at a Time More than 2 million residents of the United States experience homelessness during the year. For them, access to water and basic hygiene is non-existent or a rare luxury, not the fundamental human right the United Nations...
by John Cronin | Sep 27, 2014 | Climate Change, Energy, Human Sustainability, Law & Policy, Sustainability
Last December, I wrote an EarthDesk post that called upon American environmentalism to turn its attention to poverty and homelessness. A reader replied on Facebook that she resented the implication environmentalists ignore the poor, as she and others were fighting...