Documerica are a series of photos commissioned by the nascent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) before government regulations had really taken hold.
It’s a unique slice of Americana that’s just been re-discovered. I’ve hi-lighted some of the ones I found to be the most interesting below, but you can find many more on Flickr and on DailyDocumerica.
What’s especially compelling is...
Photo Credit: Kendra Pierre-Louis
Matt Yglesias over at Slate’s Moneybox Blog has some research on how people who live near metro stations pay a premium over those who don’t.
He views this as a problem and says the solution is to build more high rise apartments.
Now I’m from the mecca of high rise apartments and I have...
[ May 9, 2012; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] On May 9th, I'll be doing a small book club discussion with DC's EcoWomen's book club. I'm super excited about doing such an intimate discussion with such a great organization.
If you're in the DC area you should definitely check out this awesome organization.
[ March 20, 2012; 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ]
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Hello New York!
Right on the heels of the Green Washed Book Launch Party I will be giving a reading and leading a discussion at the bookstore/cafe/activist center Blue Stockings. So swing on by, grab a...
Revisions are done! The book is all set for publication in early march.
Go ahead and pre-order it – you know you want to!
hahahaha.
On a slightly more serious note. I’ve written a lot of papers in my time – my capstone paper was well over 100 pages long – but nothing has ever been this hard.
I...
Photo Credit: Latente
One of the things that I mention in Green Washed is that our emphasis on individual actions ignores the larger environmental picture and gets us to focus our attention on the wrong things.
Case in point.
The past few months the New York Times, the online journal Green Biz, and the blog Tree Hugger, have all...
food waste is, well a waste
A company I’ve been freelancing for off and on does this super generous thing of buying its staff breakfast and lunch. The above picture, however, isn’t of a recent lunch – rather it’s of the leftovers that get tossed out at the end of the day.
I live In New York City, where...
Photo Credit: EVRT Studio
Like anyone with a sense of taste, I hate dill. Pungent and tangy and filling my nostrils with its borderline acridity, I wasn’t quite sure of what to do with the heaping bunch of the stuff that appeared in my CSA, box in late July.
This, right there is the scourge of the...
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