What did your great-grandmother eat?
“Feminist social scientists use the term positionality to refer to the understanding that our lived experiences, particularly those of race, class, and gender, shape our worldviews. The food movement narrative is largely created…
Read More“A new redundant elevator is installed”………
For those of you who read my recent Blog Danger. Overhead Catenary Wires are Alive!? you’ll understand I’m not an MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority), or more simply ‘T’ basher. I…
Read MoreThe new leaders are waiting: Scaling up inclusion and diversity in environmental organizations.
A posting by Helen Whybrow in ‘Saving Land’ the Land Trust Alliance’s newsletter entitled ‘2042 Today: Cultivating Conservation Leaders of the Future’ (Fall 2011) described a 2010 leadership retreat for diverse…
Read MoreEquity? “That’s not an issue for us, we’re here to save the world”
People often ask me “why should race, class, culture, justice and equity play a role in sustainability; isn’t sustainability about ‘green’ things, you know, ‘the environment’?” My response is usually…
Read MoreYale Environment 180?
My oh my. We’ve been here so many times before. Where do I begin? In its July 25 Opinion: Assessing Obama’s Record on the Environment, Yale Environment 360 (hereinafter Yale Environment…
Read MoreDanger. Overhead catenary wires are alive!?
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not one to poke fun at public transport systems; I love them, I use them in whichever city I visit, and I visit a lot…
Read MoreGreen is not sustainable!
The highly trumpeted ‘US and Canada Green City Index‘ reported on July 4th is a very well researched report. The ranking methodology was developed by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) in cooperation with…
Read MoreGlobal environmental justice or Le droit au monde?
In May 1999, Friends of the Earth in the UK published research proving for the first time in Britain that low-income areas suffer most from industrial pollution. They called this…
Read MorePeople, plants and…..racism?
A recent edition of Yale Environment 360 got me thinking about something I’ve written about in the past, and which informed my Ph.D. In an entry entitled Alien species reconsidered:…
Read MoreDemocratizing streetscapes: Rethinking streets as public spaces
Note: This post was written by Cameron Peterson, MA student. On February 24, 2011, I presented a poster at the MIT Transportation Showcase on the research that Julian and I…
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