by Guest Contributor | Sep 28, 2014 | EarthDesk Sunday, Human Sustainability
«« »» From cartoonist Paul Fitzgerald’s website: I’ve been scratching ‘Polyp’ political cartoons since 1980 (for Leeds Student Newspaper) and took it up full time in the 90’s, having been a care worker before then. New Internationalist...
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...
by John Cronin | Sep 25, 2014 | Education, General, Higher Education, Law & Policy
Pace Academy’s Fall 2014 Environmental Policy Clinicians reported for duty with a full docket awaiting from their Spring 2014 colleagues: community energy, wildlife protection, invasive plants, food justice, circus animals, and nightsky pollution. We will follow...
by EarthDesk | Sep 21, 2014 | EarthDesk Sunday, General
This week’s EarthDesk Sunday features poster art created for today’s People’s Climate March. For more information about some of the art and artists visit the websites Creative Resistance and Just Seeds.
by John Cronin | Sep 18, 2014 | Ecology, General, International, Pollution, Sustainability, Water
Despite years of warnings from marine scientists, the Chinese sturgeon, Acipenser sinensis, may be the first of 26 subspecies of sturgeon worldwide to face extinction. Damming, pollution, overfishing and habitat destruction are the causes. According to the Chinese...
by John Cronin | Sep 14, 2014 | EarthDesk Sunday, Human Sustainability
EarthDesk is pleased to return after a brief summer hiatus. In the coming year, we will focus special attention on members of our own species whose sustainability is challenged daily by poverty, food insecurity, illness, homelessness and bigotry. After all, if we...