Kathryn Schulz’s Posts

• Done, But Not Forgotten

  Our Poverty & the Environment series comes to an end, but our concern doesn't 0

  Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

  

  The sun sets on our poverty series.

  Photo: Clipart.

  There's something a little odd about ending a series on the subject of poverty -- as we at Grist are officially doing today -- when the issue itself will stubbornly continue to exist.

  That might seem, at first, like a laughable sentence. Of course poverty will persist -- when hasn't it? -- and of course our series must end. (Not so coverage of the issues, though. Publishing Poverty & the Environment was as much an act of masonry as of… Read More

• Movement Shakers

  Two eco-leaders -- one mainstream, one radical -- debate the movement's past and future 1

  Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

  

  Eric Mann.

  When Eric Mann first encountered environmentalists, he saw them as a bunch of "arrogant, racist airheads." When Frances Beinecke first encountered environmentalists, she felt she'd found her cause.

  

  Frances Beinecke.

  Nearly four decades later, both are tireless proponents of environmental sanity, but they work in very different ways. Mann is director of the Los Angeles-based Labor/Community Strategy Center, where he fights for environmental justice, immigrant and labor rights, and economic equity. Beinecke is president of Natural Resources Defense… Read More

• Sierra Club Chronicles 0

  Posted 3 years, 7 months ago

  Turns out, we're not the only game in town paying attention to the intersection of economic and environmental issues (thankfully). So are the folks over at the Sierra Club Chronicles, a monthly TV series featuring community efforts to protect environmental health.

  This month, the series focuses on the fate of DeLisle, Mississippi, home to a Dupont chemical plant. When the plant was first built, it was welcomed by DeLisle's residents, who were hungry for steady work. Twenty-five years later, more than 2,000 current and former residents and employees are suing the company, blaming dioxin… Read More

• Behind the scenes at the poverty series...

  Some background and some thank-you's 0

  Posted 3 years, 8 months ago

  As the lead editor on Poverty & the Environment, I can say that the tough thing about putting together a series like this isn't what goes into it; it's what doesn't go in -- the great stories that wind up on the cutting room floor because you run out of time, or run out of money, or the journalist goes into labor a month early, or your awe-inspiring colleagues finally say, "we'd love to but we've already worked 96 hours this week."

  This chronic editorial dilemma was particularly acute with the current series. Given the subject matter, "embarrassment of… Read More

• Vision trouble 5

  Posted 4 years, 12 months agoDemocrats, environmentalists, and other left-leaning sorts are arguing heatedly over whether to move the party to the left or to the right in the wake of the election (those who aren't arguing over whether the election was legitimate, that is).  One wag challenged those who disapprove of any rightward slide to ask themselves: "What states did John Kerry lose that Howard Dean would have won?"

  I find this line of argument terrifying.  If we have to make the left into the right in order to win, I don't want to win.  The problem isn't Dean or Kerry.  The problem is… Read More

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