What would it take to love and care for the most marginalized people in a given community? This is the question the Boston Ujima Project is asking. The group works to build cooperative economic infrastructure and return wealth to working-class communities of color.
Santa Fe and Albuquerque share many qualities and conditions, but the two communities are also dissimilar, which is reflected in the way they have dealt with the plastic bag dilemma.
There are countless stories in the media and popular culture about our fraught relationship with plastic, focusing on our addiction and dependence. However, this way of framing the problem actually serves to perpetuate it. Plastics are plural.
They are worried about rising sea levels, extreme weather events, the spread of disease, air pollution and the extinction crisis—all issues directly impacted by the climate crisis.
The image of the canary in the coal mine is used over and over again to refer to many aspects of the climate catastrophe.
In more than 20 years of living in Southern California, I have never been in a potential fire evacuation zone—until now.
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