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1 week ago | 
daily.jstor.org | Aissa Dearing |Rajiv Shah |Kelly Taylor
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. We thought we were slowing the chemical pollution crisis by swapping our bleach for non-toxic cleaning alternatives and ensuring our beauty products only have naturally derived ingredients. Yet, studies demonstrate that green cleaning products and common sustainable swaps still contain ingredients that are harmful to human life.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
bigthink.com | Aissa Dearing
A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people JSTOR Daily isn’t new to the biofuel conversation. Many contributors have written optimistically about the contributions of the biofuel industry to sustainable aviation, bringing back prairie landscapes, and even finding a new use for massive seaweed deposits.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
illuminem.com | Aissa Dearing
An undercurrent of what is significantly stifling supply and demand for carbon dioxide removal (CDR), particularly in the USA, is pushback from environmental justice activists and communities and their justified concerns about the safety and distribution of benefits and burdens that comes from carbon removal development.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Aissa Dearing
Culture5 hours ago'The Apprentice' director talks about the film Donald Trump doesn't want you to seeNPR - Olivia Hampton • 5hAt first glance, Ali Abbasi might seem like the least likely candidate to make a film about former President Donald Trump's origin story.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
illuminem.com | Aissa Dearing
An undercurrent of what is significantly stifling supply and demand for carbon dioxide removal (CDR), particularly in the USA, is pushback from environmental justice activists and communities and their justified concerns about the safety and distribution of benefits and burdens that comes from carbon removal development.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
bigthink.com | Aissa Dearing
Legal systems have historically provided protection, promoted interests, and offered retribution in pursuing justice and addressing injustices. Central to these systems is the concept of a “legal person,” an entity that can hold “standing” in the judicial system. Traditionally, this status has been reserved for human persons, community-based organizations, and economic actors like corporations. Yet, what constitutes a legal person is a social construct that has changed over time.
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May 3, 2024 | 
bigthink.com | Aissa Dearing
From the ancient feasts of kings to the modern-day fast-food frenzy, meat has long been a global dietary centerpiece. As a critical source of protein and nutrients, meat (particularly beef) is a necessary staple of diets worldwide. Yet, how it and other ruminant meats such as mutton and goat are produced and consumed, particularly in relation to the looming environmental crises, begs humanity to reevaluate the actual costs of our carnivorous traditions.
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
daily.jstor.org | Aissa Dearing |Susie O’Brien |Cheryl Lousley |Belinda Deneen Wallace
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. With growing pressure to act in the face of the anthropogenic climate crisis, notions of time and urgency have gained renewed importance.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
illuminem.com | Aissa Dearing
When global leaders gathered at COP28, the UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai, there were growing calls for a reparative mechanism to compensate the world’s most vulnerable communities, the members of which are bearing the burden of anthropogenic climate change. Known by various names—“climate reparations,” “loss and damage,” or “climate justice”—these calls sought to redress the climate imbalance that threatens us all.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
daily.jstor.org | Aissa Dearing |Erik Stokstad |Daniel Johansson |Fredrik Hedenus
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. From the ancient feasts of kings to the modern-day fast-food frenzy, meat has long been a global dietary centerpiece. As a critical source of protein and nutrients, meat (particularly beef) is a necessary staple of diets worldwide.
