Homelessness | EarthDesk

We Are Not All Environmentalists, Nor Must We Be. A Post-Election Reflection

by John Cronin | Nov 17, 2016 | Homelessness, Law & Policy, Poverty

In the difficult years ahead, environmental organizations should address the social inequities challenging millions of Americans — a founding principle of American environmentalism.

The Homeless and Their Pets: Mutual Dependence for Survival

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...

American Environmentalism Should Embrace the Cause of Homelessness

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,...

Time to Fight Habitats Hostile to the Homeless

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...

Homeless and Waterless in America

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...

EarthDesk, published regularly during the academic year, is the online journal of the Dyson College Institute for Sustainability and the Environment (DCISE) at Pace University. John Cronin, editor.

Environmental Policy Clinic Students at Work.

Preparing oyster shells for tagging at the Billion Oyster Project, Governor's Island.

Environmental Policy Clinic Team with Senator Terrence Murphy in Albany.

With New York State Senator Terrence Murphy (center) in Albany to discuss state policy regarding mistreatment of elephants in circuses.

Investigating turtle mortality on a Putnam County highway in Cold Spring, NY with county legislator Barbara Scuccimarra (L.).

Learning the fundamentals of aquaculture at the New York Harbor School.

Demonstrating against the use of elephants in circuses, Hanneford Circus, White Plains, NY.

Discussing oyster regulation with Debbie Mans, NY-NJ Baykeeper at Pace, NYC.

Crafting oyster regulation policy with Debbie Mans, NY-NJ Baykeeper, Pace, NYC. (L.).

Ready to dig into wood chip pile to feed campus composter, Pace, Pleasantville.

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Inspired by new scientific studies of the human body as a metabiome, Dr. E. Melanie Dupuis, Professor and chair, Department of Environmental Science and Studies, reimagines the American body politic through a new metaphor — digestion — opening social transformations to ideas of mixing, fermentation, and collaboration. In doing so, she explores how social activists can rethink politics as inclusive processes that involve the inherently risky mixing of cultures, standpoints, and ideas. Dangerous Digestion at Amazon.