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Ever since I moved to the Old Bank District, I’ve been in love with Art Walk. It’s on the 2nd Tuesday of each month, and the streets of my neighborhood really come alive. All the best food trucks are out, there are street musicians, hordes of people representing all tribes of LA milling happily about. [...]
Washington state senators join forces with senators from Oregon and California to permanently ban offshore drilling in all federal waters off their coasts. Following the oil spill nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, Washington state’s two senators, Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray, are co-sponsoring a legislative ban on offshore drilling in federal waters. And they [...]
Many of our urban neighborhoods are virtual food deserts, lacking access to healthy produce and locally grown food, where a greasy Big Mac is far easier to find than a fresh head of cabbage. How to increase access to healthy food is a complex problem that offers no easy answers. Creating sustainable change is a [...]
A producing oil well directionally drilled under Lake Michigan near Manistee, Michigan. The state banned new directional drilling operations under the Great Lakes in 2002 and Congress banned all new oil and gas wells in and under the Great Lakes in 2005. What are the odds of a major ecological disaster in the Great Lakes [...]
Although Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has just ordered a temporary halt to all new U.S. offshore drilling permits, the cries for a permanent end to all offshore oil drilling are growing louder. Firedoglake has just released this powerful ad, which combines images of the horrific destruction in the Gulf with President Barack Obama’s own words:
