Posts tagged with “Environmental Justice” (All posts)
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Want to increase your awareness about food-issues around you? Attend the Tri-College Food Summit on Saturday, October 3, 2015 at Olin Hall from 2-5:30 pm.
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What was up with the People’s Climate March.
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I first seriously considered the implications of new mining projects in Northern Minnesota when I met a group of activists while hitchhiking north after my first year at Carleton. I…
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I don’t know what got into me. I am a cheese-loving girl from small town Wisconsin. At the beginning of this term, I decided to have a go being vegan.…
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The final update from Powershift 2011!
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This week our guest blogger is Ellen Drews, a sophomore at Carleton and campus organizer for the national “Take Back the Tap” campaign:
Bottled water is one of the least-regulated industries…
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Ben Hellerstein, a junior at Carleton and leader of our MPIRG (Minnesota Public Interest Research Group) chapter, is our guest blogger for the day:
This Tuesday, a group…
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“Now I know the only one who cares about the environment out of 1.3 billion people who don’t,” said an American friend of mine after he was approached by a…
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The growing rash of piracy off the coast of Somalia has been consistently present in international news for the past several years, and has had a major impact on the security and economy in the region. Western nations have stepped up anti-piracy patrols in an attempt to re-establish key shipping lanes, as well as to make the gulf and its highly productive fishery safer for fishing vessels. However, little press has been given to what role these international fishing vessels may have played in the development of Somalian piracy in the first place.
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Vera Chang and I presented about our experiences at Terra Madre last week, but I’ll elaborate here as well. We attended the Slow Food international Terra Madre conference in Torino, Italy October 25-28. The conference was a gathering of the world’s food communities—thousands growers, producers and eaters all converged to discuss the issues facing our food system, learn from world leaders, and celebrate our unique but interconnected food cultures and traditions.
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