Royal, a neighborhood just west of Wildwood in Sumter County — Royal, one of the oldest Black communities in the state, houses over 150 years of history. The grove of trees where Phillip James was born is just a few yards from where he sits now: the front lawn of the Wildwood house he’s called Read More…
Florida’s new Property Assessed Clean Energy Program (PACE), which provides renewable energy funding to homeowners for installation of solar panels and battery storage. This new program is helping homeowners save hundreds every month on energy without paying any costs for installation. All homeowners may apply for the PACE program. Installation also includes warranty, support, maintenance, Read More…
Recycling your Plastic Bottle Tops can become a work of art. The city is decorated with murals depicting everything from pea pods in the depths of the southwest downtown parking garage to scenes splashed across walls of businesses that look like they’ve been ripped directly from a dream. A container of caps sits in Chloe Read More…
Water Drought in South Oregon and the Federal Relief Program, has contributed to the on-going ground water Crisis in the West. Kimberley Hasselbrink For two decades, the Bureau of Reclamation incentivized farmers to pump water faster than the resource could recover, despite warnings from its own scientists. This year, residents of Klamath County paid the Read More…
CEMETERIES If they’re not simply abandoned, they are accused of wastefulness and pollution: cemeteries have a hard life in our current times. And yet, they can play an essential role — on both the environmental and human levels — for those who are still living. The only time I’ve ever slept in a cemetery was Read More…
ENVIRONMENTAL FOR BLACK & BROWN COMMUNITIES: Why Residents Pushed Back Against Tree-Planting Detroiters were refusing city-sponsored “free trees.” A researcher found out the problem: She was the first person to ask them if they wanted them. A landmark report conducted by University of Michigan environmental sociologist Dorceta Taylor in 2014 warned of the “arrogance” of Read More…
