Craig Thompson

New York

Editor, Video Producer and Show Producer at CUNY TV

Freelance Writer at EcoWatch

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Articles

All Climate Change Is Local: A Story of Tacoma Park's Trees With Author Mike Tidwell

1 week ago | ecowatch.com | Craig Thompson

In 2018, devastating rains hit Mike Tidwell’s community of Tacoma Park, Maryland, leading to a loss of tree canopy the following year unparalleled in the city’s history. After the torrential rainfall, Tidwell went on a kind of detective’s quest to find out what was killing the trees of Willow Avenue and elsewhere in Tacoma Park, and to try to connect the dots to climate change.
PBS Documentary Shows Triumph and Tragedy in Fight for Water Rights

2 weeks ago | ecowatch.com | Craig Thompson

Water For Life began its journey when filmmaker Will Parrinello and his team followed environmental activist Francisco Pineda more than 14 years ago. Pineda was a winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize who was working to stop the development of a gold mine in his home country of El Salvador. “He doesn’t say this in the film, but he says regularly – you can’t come here and destroy our precious water resources and our ways of life,” said Parrinello. “We’re happy as subsistence farmers.
PBS Documentary Shows Triumph and Tragedy in Fight for Water Rights

2 weeks ago | ecotopical.com | Craig Thompson

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'Waste Wars': A Conflict With No End in Sight

1 month ago | ecowatch.com | Craig Thompson

In 2018, China made global headlines when it banned the importation of foreign plastic and electronic waste. This fleeting news item exposed one of the dirty secrets of the Western world’s trash – that much of our garbage is, in reality, shipped elsewhere, many times under the shield of “recycling,” a little-known fact until China’s ban made headlines. Once the world’s biggest importer of plastic waste, China shut the doors on this huge industry. But did the waste disappear?
‘Waste Wars’: A Conflict With No End in Sight

1 month ago | ecotopical.com | Craig Thompson

Welcome to EcoTopical Your daily eco-friendly green news aggregator. Leaf through planet Earths environmental headlines in one convenient place. Read, share and discover the latest on ecology, science and green living from the web's most popular sites.
'American Oasis' Author Kyle Paoletta on the History and Future of the American Southwest

2 months ago | ecowatch.com | Craig Thompson

In the not-too-distant past, the American Southwest was a place that fed the imagination of non-residents. The sun, the desert, expansive canyons and gorgeous vistas have drawn visitors and retirees for decades. The Southwest is generally defined as Arizona, New Mexico and parts of Nevada, California and Texas, and the attraction is predictable – warm weather, adobe architecture, cacti and grand canyons.
‘American Oasis’ Author Kyle Paoletta on the History and Future of the American Southwest

2 months ago | ecotopical.com | Craig Thompson

Welcome to EcoTopical Your daily eco-friendly green news aggregator. Leaf through planet Earths environmental headlines in one convenient place. Read, share and discover the latest on ecology, science and green living from the web's most popular sites.
'Into the Thaw': Jon Waterman on a Changing Alaska

Feb 14, 2025 | ecowatch.com | Craig Thompson

With each new federal administration, energy priorities shift. With the election of Donald Trump in 2024, one of his administration’s key promises, enforced by an executive order on January 20 this year and as promised in Project 2025, was to try to ramp up oil and gas drilling in the continental U.S. A key location for increased extraction? Alaska, the remote northern state that always seems to be at the tip of the tongue when the expression “drill, baby, drill” is uttered.
A Flood of Ash: The Fight for Justice in Kingston, Tennessee

Feb 13, 2025 | ecowatch.com | Craig Thompson

Just before Christmas in 2008 in the Tennessee town of Kingston, a pile of coal ash located near the Kingston Fossil Plant broke free and spread into the 300 acres surrounding the plant and eventually into the Emory River Channel. The six-story high pile of coal ash – residue from burning coal – had accumulated over five decades in an area that had started out as a swimming hole.
A Flood of Ash: The Fight for Justice in Kingston, Tennessee

Feb 13, 2025 | ecotopical.com | Craig Thompson

Welcome to EcoTopical Your daily eco-friendly green news aggregator. Leaf through planet Earths environmental headlines in one convenient place. Read, share and discover the latest on ecology, science and green living from the web's most popular sites.