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 | Apr 18, 2014 | Health, International, Sustainability, Water
The video clip above, of villagers in Central Malawi gathering the day’s water, is part of an extraordinary interactive story published recently on the Irish Times site by Trócaire, a Catholic charity in Kildare, Ireland that works in over 20 countries across...
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”*...