When global leaders won’t save our food system, cities take the lead.
This piece I co-wrote with Anita Krajnc of Plant Based Treaty and Nital Jethalal of VegTO was published by the Independent Media Institute in December 2022 and syndicated in Countercurrents, CounterPunch, AlterNet, Independent Australia, and others.
(The following post originally appeared on PETA’s blog.) A horse who is forced to pull carriages through New York City’s congested, noisy streets bolted over the weekend while being bathed on the sidewalk, raced up 11th Avenue in Manhattan with police cars in pursuit, and shocked pedestrians and motorists who were looking on. An eyewitness, Jonathan Read More
(Featured in HoneyColony‘s Buzzworthy Blogs here.) I’ve always been enthralled by water. Standing beneath a curtain of water cascading down a mountainside on a chilly morning is among the most invigorating experiences I’ve ever had. There is something magical about the way the water perpetually flows off a cliff, so fresh and crisp, before it Read More
(Posted in the Sierra Club’s newsletter, the Old Dominion Sierran, in fall 2013.) Earlier this month, reports revealed that Virginia Uranium, Inc., the company responsible for unrelenting efforts to lift our state’s 30-year ban on uranium mining, spent $572,607 lobbying Virginia officials last year – the most of any group in Virginia, and as much as Read More
An action alert for the Sierra Club’s anti-uranium mining campaign: As the fight to protect Virginia’s moratorium on uranium mining took center stage in Southside last year, the Fairfax Water Authority published a critical report noting a number of mines that could come online in Northern Virginia should the moratorium be lifted. All of these mines Read More