North Lawndale Youth Target Food Deserts

Chicago's Free Spirit Media has just posted its latest video piece, done in collaboration with UMOJA, online. It's at:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM7t132j0Hg. This 10-minute piece explores the issue of lack of affordable, healthy food and includes a community survey, interviews with experts, conversations with people on the street. Well done all around.

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Sho-Ban News

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Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media (Chicago workshop)

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CNT's Housing + Transit Affordability Index
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PPIC's "How much do California's low-income households spend on transportation?"
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TCDP: Climate Change and Low-Income Communities
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U.S. News & World Report: Cleanest & Most Polluted U.S. Cities
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Chicago Magazine: How do we compare? The myth of green space
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LA Times: California's poor neighborhoods push for parks
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Justice in the Air: Toxic Pollution in Our Neighborhoods
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ALA's Most Polluted Areas
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Environmental Justice in L.A.: A Timeline
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Open Source Green Activism

A fascinating idea from Ald. Manny Flores - citizens can get online, post their ideas for building the city's green economy, then watch as others critique, improve and advocate for them. Visit http://www.greeneconomychicago.com - there are already some great ideas posted.

TIME Takes a Look at Food Deserts

TIME has just posted a piece looking at food deserts. Talks to Mari Gallagher, looks at Farmer's Best Market on Chicago's South Side. Minority residents of the windy city have to travel twice as far to get fresh meats and produce. See the story, as well as the accompanying video, at http://tinyurl.com/qpkz29.

Old Stoves + Global Warming

Nice piece in the NYT on an emerging strategy for quickly reducing global warming: upgrade the primitive cooking stoves in villages throughout developing world. These old soot-producing stoves may play a significant role as a cause of warming and present a potential quick fix for at least some of the major cause. See the story at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/science/earth/16degrees.html?_r=1&hp

(No) Drilly, Baby, Drill sez Friedman

Nice column by Thomas Friedman on how Costa Rica has rolled environmental management together with other priorities since the late '90s. That's when environment, energy, mining and water were all placed under one minister. This led to an integrated way of approaching the environment and development - seeing them as compatible rather than mutually exclusive. Though oil was discovered in Costa Rican territory, the country decided to ban drilling. See the column here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/opinion/12friedman.html?_r=1

Funny, a little sick, and very informative

That's how Isabella Rosselini described the new series she wrote, stars in and co-produced. It's called Green Porno 2, was released online April 1, and tells the story of how wild marine animals reproduce. (Green Porno 1 looked at the sex habits of insects.) In it Rosselini plays a number of animals, including a starfish, alongside dozens of different... well, you'll have to watch for yourself. It's amazing! See it at:

http://www.sundancechannel.com/greenporno/