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I Will Simply Survive While the wealthy may strive for 'simple living,' the poor try simply surviving	Elizabeth Chin	01 Mar 2006	Soapbox
While the wealthy may strive for "simple living," the poor try simply surviving By Elizabeth Chin 01 Mar 2006 In the early 1990s, I knew a 10-year-old boy named Davy who had never been to Toys "R" Us. When I told his story, people would often respond to this part of his life with a sort of sentimental longing. "How wonderful that he has never been to that awful place," they'd say. Davy's lack of experience, however, was a marker not of his prot ...
Topics: Connecticut, environmental justice, green living, politics, Poverty and the Environment, United States (all these topics)

A House Divided An interactive illustration of how the other half lives	Keri Rosebraugh	01 Mar 2006	Main Dish
Click on the image to see a full-size version. The wrong side of the tracks: we often talk about a figurative gulf between rich and poor in the United States, but as this phrase suggests, there is also a literal chasm between the classes. If you live in poverty in this country, odds are you live in the "bad" parts of town -- the parts that are dirtier, more dangerous, harder to acc ...
Topics: environmental justice, green living, Poverty and the Environment, toxics (all these topics)

Work in Progress Alan Hipólito, creator of green jobs for low-income people, answers Grist's questions		27 Feb 2006	InterActivist
What work do you do? I run a very small, very new nonprofit organization called Verde. What does your organization do? What, in a perfect world, would constitute "mission accomplished"? Verde offers a helping hand in the form of green jobs for low-income folks. Photo: iStockphoto. The mission of Verde is to increase the economic health of low-income and people-of-color com ...
Topics: environmental justice, gardening, green jobs, InterActivist, interview, placemaking, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

Rumblings in the Bronx A virtual walking tour of the South Bronx with Omar Freilla of Green Worker Cooperatives	Mary Wiltenburg	27 Feb 2006	Main Dish
Click image to take the tour. Photo by Mary Wiltenburg. New York's South Bronx was once a getaway for the rich; now the defining landmarks of the community are power plants, landfills, and parking lots. Where some might see hopelessness, though, resident Omar Freilla sees opportunity. Freilla founded Green Work ...
Topics: consumerism, environmental justice, grassroots activism, heroes, New York, Poverty and the Environment, toxics, waste (all these topics)

Mapled Crusaders Community forests help revitalize New England towns	Wayne Curtis	23 Feb 2006	Main Dish
Beyond a set of granite gates on a hillside in Rumford, Maine, a lost city sits amid silver maples and oaks, just across the river from a sprawling paper mill. It's called Strathglass Park, and it's a vestige of an experiment in corporate benevolence. Designed in 1904 by noted architect Cass Gilbert, who later designed the Woolworth Building in Manhattan and the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, t ...
Topics: environmental justice, environmental movement, local politics, New England, placemaking, Poverty and the Environment, wilderness (all these topics)

I'm Hatin' It How the feds make bad-for-you food cheaper than healthful fare	Tom Philpott	22 Feb 2006	Main Dish
If you're going to talk about poverty, food, and the environment in the United States, you might as well start in the Corn Belt. So good, and so good for you -- until it's turned into soda. Photo: stock.xchng. This fertile area produces most of the country's annual corn harvest of more than 10 billion bushels, far and away the world's largest such haul. Where does it all go? The majority -- a ...
Topics: Big Ag, Department of Agriculture, environmental justice, gardening, grassroots activism, industrial ag, local food, New York, placemaking, Poverty and the Environment, sustainable ag (all these topics)

Turn the Eat Around Forgotten by many, a Brooklyn neighborhood nourishes its own	Tom Philpott	22 Feb 2006	Main Dish
Wander into Brooklyn's Red Hook neighborhood on a Saturday morning in summer, and you'll see a sight not uncommon in New York City these days: a thriving and diverse farmers' market. Neighborhood denizens cluster around stands offering free-range meat, fresh cheese, cream-on-top milk, and a whole array of fresh fruit and vegetables, many of them grown right down the block. An Added Value ...
Topics: Big Ag, Department of Agriculture, environmental justice, gardening, grassroots activism, industrial ag, local food, New York, placemaking, Poverty and the Environment, sustainable ag (all these topics)

Finger-Lickin' Bad How poultry producers are ravaging the rural South	Suzi Parker	21 Feb 2006	Main Dish
A person driving through the South might notice the chicken houses dotting the hills and flatlands. He might marvel at the larger ones, as long as a football field. He might react to their gagging stench for a moment, and then forget as he travels on. But those who live near the structures -- stuffed with as many as 25,000 chickens each -- combat the odor and health hazards daily. Not yer pappy's chi ...
Topics: ag policy, agriculture, air pollution, Alabama, Arkansas, environmental justice, health, Oklahoma, Poverty and the Environment, state politics (all these topics)

All About Steve Steve Frillmann, community-garden guru, answers readers' questions		17 Feb 2006	InterActivist
Steve Frillmann, executive director of Green Guerillas. I'd love to hear a juicy story of how community gardening is a tool for community development. Would you share one? -- Lisa Gelczis, Flagstaff, Ariz. Just this past summer, Green Guerillas cut the lock off the fence of a once-vibrant community garden that had fallen into disrepair. We put up fliers, knocked on doors, and went to community meeti ...
Topics: environmental justice, food, gardening, InterActivist, interview, New York, placemaking, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

The Legend of Weepy Hollow An excerpt from Missing Mountains, a new book about mountaintop-removal mining		16 Feb 2006	Arts and Minds
Missing Mountains, Wind Publications, 220 pgs., 2005. In August of 2002, Amanda Moore, a lawyer for the Appalachian Citizens Law Center, took on what she thought was a cut-and-dried legal matter for Granville Lee Burke, a resident of Chopping Branch Hollow in eastern Kentucky. Earlier that year, a flood that wreaked havoc throughout the hollow had severely damaged Burke's house ...
Topics: books, coal, energy, environmental justice, Kentucky, mining, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

Moving Mountains Mountaintop-removal mining is devastating Appalachia, but residents are fighting back	Erik Reece	16 Feb 2006	Main Dish
This article was originally published in Orion Magazine. Not since the glaciers pushed toward these ridgelines a million years ago have the Appalachian Mountains been as threatened as they are today. But the coal-extraction process decimating this landscape, known as mountaintop removal, has generated little press beyond the region. A mountaintop no more. Photo: Viv ...
Topics: Appalachia, coal, energy, environmental justice, health, Kentucky, mining, Poverty and the Environment, Virginia, West Virginia (all these topics)

We Live It Every Day The faces and voices of West Virginians battered by mountaintop removal	Antrim Caskey	16 Feb 2006	Main Dish
These photographs were originally published in Orion Magazine. In May 2005, photographer Antrim Caskey encountered Maria Gunnoe in Manhattan. Gunnoe had come to protest the practice of mountaintop-removal mining at a Massey Energy shareholders meeting. Two days later, Caskey left for the Cumberland Plateau, where she made these images. "People are scared," Caskey sa ...
Topics: environmental justice, mining, Poverty and the Environment, West Virginia (all these topics)

In the Line of Wildfire Could a Western wildfire be the country's next Katrina?	Jeff Nachtigal	15 Feb 2006	Main Dish
At the end of summer in southern Oregon's Cascade foothills, when trees and brush have turned tinder dry and thunderstorms regularly roll overhead, Millie Chatterton and her neighbors start thinking about the lightning strike that could touch off disaster. The Biscuit burns in 2002. Photo: USFWS. Chatterton can't forget the afternoon in 1987 when she walked out of a grocery store in her ...
Topics: California, environmental justice, national forests, Oregon, Poverty and the Environment, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Fighting Fire with Ire How one group is keeping communities safe from wildfire	Jeff Nachtigal	15 Feb 2006	Main Dish
Hayfork, Calif., is a one-highway town. A small collection of storefronts and a post office hug Highway 3, a two-lane strip that curls through the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. A decade ago, this was a major route for logging trucks. These days, a few trucks still rumble through, but the road is mostly quiet, mirroring the decline this Northern California outpost has gone through since ...
Topics: California, environmental justice, national forests, Oregon, Poverty and the Environment, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Fatigue of Nations What green looks like to the world's emerging economies	John Elkington, Mark Lee	14 Feb 2006	Full Disclosure
By John Elkington and Mark Lee 14 Feb 2006
Topics: business, environmental justice, Full Disclosure, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

Down for the Count Facts and figures on poverty in the United States	Sarah Kraybill	13 Feb 2006	Counter Culture
$35,000 -- basic-needs budget for a U.S. family of four (two adults, two children), as calculated in An Atlas of Poverty in America 1 $19,157 -- poverty line for a family of four (two adults, two children) in the U.S. in 2004, as established by the U.S. Census Bureau 2 More Americans are feeling the squeeze. Photo: iStockphoto. $19,000 -- amount spent by Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's wife Columba during ...
Topics: environmental justice, lists, politics, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

Guerillas in the Midst Steve Frillmann, community-garden guru, answers Grist's questions		13 Feb 2006	InterActivist
Steve Frillmann. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I am the executive director of Green Guerillas, New York City's oldest community-gardening group. What does your organization do? At Green Guerillas, we help people carry out their visions for what community gardens can be in a dense, vibrant urban area -- urban farms, botanic gardens, performance spaces, community centers, ...
Topics: environmental justice, food, gardening, InterActivist, interview, New York, placemaking, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

Walk This Way A virtual walking tour of Columbia, Miss., with Charlotte Keys of Jesus People Against Pollution	Mary Wiltenburg	13 Feb 2006	Main Dish
Click image to take the tour. Photo by Mary Wiltenburg. In 1977, a factory in Columbia, Miss., that had been manufacturing Agent Orange was rocked by an explosion. The owner, Reichhold Chemical Inc., shuttered the facility and abandoned or buried thousands of barrels of toxic waste near the water supply of the pr ...
Topics: environmental justice, Mississippi, Poverty and the Environment, religion and spirituality, waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Return of the Native Movement Evon Peter, director of Native Movement, answers readers' questions		10 Feb 2006	InterActivist
Evon Peter, director of Native Movement. I've heard that some Indigenous peoples in Alaska support drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, while some sturdily oppose it. How do you feel about the proposal to drill? And what do you think the division is doing to the communities there? -- Joshua Moro, Laramie, Wyo. There is no simple answer to this question. The history of unju ...
Topics: environmental justice, environmental movement, heroes, InterActivist, interview, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

Getting Evon Evon Peter, director of Native Movement, answers Grist's questions		06 Feb 2006	InterActivist
Evon Peter. What work do you do? I am the executive director of Native Movement. What does your organization do? Native Movement is a collective of around 15 organizers who work on a myriad of projects focusing on youth leadership development, sustainability, protection of sacred sites, and social, political, economic, and environmental justice. We work mostly with Indigenous peoples in the Southwest and ...
Topics: environmental justice, environmental movement, heroes, InterActivist, interview, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

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