Elena Bruess

1 week ago | houstonlanding.org | Elena Bruess

It’s been several years since the stench permeated through Shadow Creek Ranch, but Berto Lozano still remembers it like it was yesterday. The smell, from the nearby Blue Ridge Landfill in Fort Bend County, seeped into homes at night, causing respiratory issues and headaches, waking children and alarming families. These days, it’s not nearly as frequent or intense, but some mornings, Lozano still smells that telltale mix of trash and rotten eggs.

1 week ago | houstonlanding.org | Elena Bruess

As Houston heads toward producing 5.4 million tons of waste annually by 2040, the space available at its five landfills will decrease by a third within the next 15 years. America’s fourth-largest city now faces a critical choice: continue on a path that has disproportionately harmed communities of color, or move toward more sustainable and equitable waste solutions. Read the three-part series, made possible by a grant from the MIT Environmental Solutions Journalism Fellowship.

1 week ago | houstonlanding.org | Elena Bruess

This is the first of a three-part series examining Houston’s mounting trash troubles, made possible by a grant from the MIT Environmental Solutions Journalism Fellowship. Even with the car windows rolled down, it’s hard for Angela Jackson to know exactly where the stench is coming from. It could be the garbage lining the sides of the road or the trash lumped into a massive hill in the distance. Either way, she wrinkles her nose and tells her son, LaVon, to record a video on his phone.

1 month ago | houstonlanding.org | Elena Bruess

The sun is just peaking over the horizon when Van Thawng starts his day. He pulls on his gloves and his rain boots, a baseball cap and a light jacket and takes off at a brisk pace through his 4.6-acre farm southwest of Houston. He is watering, tilling and pulling weeds for the next couple hours – even planting an entire row of herbs before the sun is fully up.  Thawng says he purchased this property about a year and a half ago to connect with the land.

1 month ago | businessinsider.jp | Elena Bruess |Audrey Springer

毎日走るのは健康に良くない。疲労骨折や脛骨の過労性骨膜炎、肉離れといったからだの使い過ぎによる怪我のリスクを高めるからだ。 からだに適度な休息と修復の時間を与えるためにも、走るのは週に3～5日にすべきだ。 普段は使わない筋肉を鍛えるために、走らない日には水泳やサイクリングといった異なるタイプのエクササイズをするといい。 ランニングはからだの調子を上げ、気分を高める、コストパフォーマンスの良いエクササイズになり得るものの、毎日走ることによるリスクもある。どのくらいの頻度で走るべきか、どういう時に走るのを休むべきか、ランニングについてあなたが知るべき全てを紹介しよう。 毎日走るのはダメ 初心者だろうとベテランだろうと、同じ筋肉や組織を常に使い続けているとオーバートレーニングになる可能性がある。 ｢ランニングは素晴らしいのですが、組織の健康を保ち、常に一貫した方法で同じストレス、同じ負荷をかけないことも重要です｣と、メイヨー・クリニックの理学療法・リハビリテーション学の教授で医師のエドワード・ラスコースキー（Edward Laskowski）氏は語っている。...