Brian Calvert

Paonia, Western Australia

Associate Editor at Earth Island Journal

Writer-editor trying to make sense of words and the world. He/him. Associate editor @earthislandjrnl. Contributing editor @civileats. DM for details.

Articles

How One Milwaukee Food Bank Is Handling the Drop in USDA Funding

3 days ago | civileats.com | Brian Calvert

In particular, he was tracking available food distributions from the Emergency Food Assistance Program, or TEFAP. TEFAP is a federal program that provides food assistance to people with low incomes, often by supplementing food banks. An affable, soft-spoken advocate for nutrition, King was planning on the TEFAP distributions to stockpile food supplies heading into summer.
Trump Orders Deregulation of the US Fishing Industry

6 days ago | civileats.com | Brian Calvert

Trump Orders Deregulation of the US Fishing IndustrySustainability advocates worry that deregulation, combined with cuts to monitoring agencies, will mean a return to the depletion of US fish stocks. April 18, 2025 – President Donald Trump yesterday announced an effort to create a “new era” of seafood policy, with an executive order that aims to “reduce the regulatory burden” on U.S. fisheries.
At a Regional USDA Office, Californians Protest Agency Cuts

2 weeks ago | civileats.com | Brian Calvert

Throughout her career at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Diane Delaney had a good job that allowed her a comfortable place among the middle class in the San Francisco Bay Area. Perhaps more important, the role made her feel like she was contributing to a better future. As a lab technician, she carefully prepared tree core samples that helped scientists understand past and future climates as well as wildfires, cleaning and polishing samples while enjoying the aroma of fresh pine.
Britain Shirley MacLaine 1960

Nov 29, 2024 | chronicleonline.com | Brian Calvert

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The ‘Soft Path’ of Water for Farmers in the Western US

Oct 28, 2024 | civileats.com | Brian Calvert

When Peter Gleick moved to California in the 1970s, the state had more than a million acres of cotton in production and little control over the use of its rapidly depleting groundwater. Today, California grows a tenth the amount of cotton and groundwater use has been brought under control. For Gleick, an author and cofounder of the water-focused Pacific Institute, these are signs that change can happen.
Britain anti-apartheid march 1961

Oct 4, 2024 | chronicleonline.com | Brian Calvert

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Britain anti-apartheid march 1961

Oct 4, 2024 | chronicleonline.com | Brian Calvert

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Britain anti-apartheid march 1961

Oct 4, 2024 | the-messenger.com | Brian Calvert

Police accompany the marchers during the anti-apartheid protest march along London's Oxford Street, March 4, 1961, only a few hours after South African Premier Dr Hendrik Verwoerd had flown in for next week's Commonwealth Premier's conference. At the head of the column is a large "Verwoerd Must Go" banner. Leading the march are, from right; Nana Mahoma, Fenner Brockway, Labour MP for Eton and Slough, Dr Y Dadoo, Kusen Guizi and Oliver Tambo.
Britain anti-apartheid march 1961

Oct 4, 2024 | the-messenger.com | Brian Calvert

Linking arms as they lead the anti-apartheid protest march along London's Oxford Street, March 4, 1961, are from left; Oliver Tambo, Kusen Guizi, Dr Y Dadoo, Fenner Brockway, Labour member of parliament for Eton and Slough, and Nana Mahoma. In the background is a "Verwoerd Must Go" banner.
Deniz Sağdıç Turns Trash to Art

Jul 23, 2024 | earthisland.org | Brian Calvert

Waste Knot Artist Deniz Sağdıç transforms the products of our mass consumption into provocative portraits. From a distance, the massive, colorful portraits by Deniz Sağdıç are undeniably striking, but it is the medium and not the work itself that creates a fundamental shift in thought. Up close, we see that Sağdıç’s medium is waste: cut-up jeans, old matchboxes, the electronic detritus of the digital age.