Faced with the proposed mergers of agribusiness giants, regulators must decide whether an even smaller number of companies will have an even more powerful hold on the future of food and agriculture.
Would users still indulge if they knew illegal marijuana production contributes to the death of forest-dwelling animals?
Tamed elephants are tortured elephants. Ban their use in all forms of entertainment, beginning in New York State.
Draconian subpoenas by House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith are designed to have a chilling effect on the work of NOAA climate scientists.
If “historic” and “landmark” are missing from your dictionary, it’s no wonder. They could use a break. Kudos are being heaped from quarters far and wide about the outcomes of COP21. But there are also sobering times ahead, by some reporters’ accounts.
Environmental Policy Clinic Students at Work.
Dr. E. Melanie Dupuis
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.
