Burgerbanism: Coal-Fired Pizza, The Latest Front in the Culture War?
New York City has banned coal-fired pizza ovens unless they’re equipped with industrial-grade pollution treatment systems. Pizza didn’t do anything to deserve this.
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Environment
Hubbard Farms Signs On To Lawsuit Against Zug Island Concrete Plant
When news broke last fall that Governor Whitmer’s administration had cherry-picked air quality data to justify the granting of a
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Taking Climate Solutions To New Heights With ADL Ventures
Nat starts a new job with ADL Ventures, a venture developer focusing on solutions for energy, climate, and construction.
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Does Big Oil Deserve A Seat At COP28?
The world’s favorite international stopover for consumer largesse and one of the biggest oil producers in the world is hosting the UN’s climate conference. Should we be outraged? Or ever more invested?
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POCACITO Transatlantic Forum on Climate and Environmental Justice
New friends, old friends, and comrades, generally, in this most righteous struggle for climate and environmental justice, met up last week at the POCACITO Transatlantic Forum in Washington, DC.
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Making Environmental and Climate Justice Visible: POCACITO Returns!
I am looking forward to again working with the inimitable Max Gruenig to help put together a conference at the
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To Sprawl, Or Not To Sprawl: LaSalle, Ontario Mulls Development Plan
If we can get past the fanciful belief that all growth is good growth, we can critically examine the likes of really bad municipal planning in our southern neighbor of Canada.
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Vape eWaste Recycling: Showing The Business Math
The question I’ve gotten a lot in the process of planning this eWaste recycling program is, of course, “how much
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Vape Recycling: Handbuilt Lobbies State Senators To Regulate eWaste
Michiganders throw out hundreds of thousands of vapes each year, if not more. This is an environmental disaster, but one we can mitigate with better eWaste recycling.
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TED Countdown Detroit: Sustainability’s Problem With Elitism and Respectability Politics
Al Gore, McKinsey alums, and half of the Ivy League descends on Detroit this week to tell the peasants about sustainability and decarbonization. Just kidding, it’s a for-profit, invite-only event that costs $4,000– no peasants will be invited.
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